Give her huge kudos: she’s planning to continue the race, even as a non-competitor, if they can fix the boat in Cape Town. Good on her! “That’s part of the adventure”, she says. And for the charity she represents. Initiatives du Coeur.
Looking at the damage to the keel, I’m going to go with my guess: it was a log, floating semi-submersed. It could have been a container, or a whale. But container would have been closer to the surface and a whale unlikely to have made such a clear single point damage. ADDED: a comment at the video linked above suggests cctv in the keel, to see what UFO is hit. Given the number of cameras they already have, not a bad idea!
Here’s a screenshot of her photo of the keel with her endoscope.
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| A chunk out of leading edge and looks like out of the bulb as well |
