Apparently, Geronimo was attacked by a giant squid. Freaky, I thought these things were only storybook tales. Guy said he suspected it of being at least 10 meters long!!!
http://www.grandsrecords.com/ker/rec/en/evenementiel/homepage_flash.htmDidier Ragot
it shook the whole boat
“It was a giant squid. The tentacles were as thick as my arms plus the waterproofs. Amazing! To begin with it was jammed between the top of the rudder blade and the hull and then it sent two of its tentacles down to the base of the rudder blade and grasped it right the way around at fence level. I saw it astern after it had let go, and I reckon it was about 10 metres long: absolutely enormous. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen one so big: it shook the whole boat and it was rather worrying at the time. If it had managed to climb on board, we’d have had to offer it lunch or something to keep it from lunching on us…. We were all ready to do battle with boathooks and knives, but as soon as we slowed the boat down, it obviously decided that it would be better to let us go while it had the chance and that’s exactly what it did. Our first concern was whether or not it had damaged the boat. We slowed the boat immediately to check for damage, but luckily, the only problem was a small amount of water in the bearings.
We lost about an hour, or maybe an hour and a quarter. We were doing 24 knots at the time, so we probably lost at least 30 miles by slowing down to just 11 knots”.
PLEASE GOD DON'T MAKE ONE ATTACK ME AND MY LIL HOBIE...