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Whale Breaches Yacht [Photos]

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Whale Breaches Yacht [Photos]

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Perhaps there ARE advantages to a steel yacht...
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Perhaps there ARE good reasons not to have silly graphics on your genoa!
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Perhaps that IS Simon Templer's boat.
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I wonder what the whale feel like after crashing down with all its' weight on a steel boat.
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Who had the right of way?
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Uhhhhh, I think the rule of gross tonnage applies here.
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They posted a video (though a shaky one) of the whole thing, it happens SO fast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji-exTR3R0
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Latitude 38, a west coast publication reported that witnesses to this claimed the sailboat and a rubber dinghy had been harassing and running into this whale for over an hour before this incident.
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