Blow up boats and sharks..

[disorderly]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/sharks-repeatedly-attack-yacht-off-australian-coast-forcing-sailors-to-abandon-damaged-vessel/ar-AA1gj2yG

Wondering about the feasibility of using an inflatable boat for a round-the-world expedition..

Just asking for a friend.

[chris69]

Yer just saw the professer on the news hes said the sharks were just hungery the hull was double layered he said , well not good enough for our skarks it was a long swim to Cairns if they did not get rescued but i dont think the sharks would have been hungery any more.

[disorderly]

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/austr...ns/ar-AA1glw4f

These cookie-cutters sound like evil little suckers..Last attack they took a chunk out of a kid on Maggie island in 2017...

Apparently it was the 2nd inflatable boat they were using as the first one was also attcked by sharks a couple of months back...

They sound like the Piranha of the sea..

[chris69]

You would have given you after the first I find it odd for them to jut attack the hulls I don’t think the Kontiki raft had that problem .

[ranmar850]

Cookie cutter sharks are the bane of large gamefish. The just dive in, attach their circular mouths to their sides, and take a round chunk out. I've caught marlin with the wounds--they heal, but it must hurt like hell. If you have a look at Eddie Lawler's ( Peak Sportfishing ) video on his grander Blue, you can see such a wound in a couple of shots. Such wounds on gamefish do not disqualify them under IGFA rules the way a regular shark attack does. The rubbery pontoons of an inflatable might just look like the flanks of big billfish.

[docaster]

Once bitten twice shy, would be sensible option one would think, but no.

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[smidsy]

So who's paying for the rescue services to rescue these muppets ??

They should be invoiced for stupidity. No problem rescuing proper sailors, but these guys are just taking the piss !