I don't think so. I think the funny color of the hulls are a result of the color correction and brightness change to the digital image. The splashing and water being thrown about is all consistent in frame speed (i.e. right amount of blurriness).
I suspect that the cat just took a dramatic nose dive, the skipper flew off (and forward) and the 165lb A-cat popped back up out of the water like a cork and the wind propelled it forward. The sail angle is right, the hiking stick is right, the sailor in the water is right, the splashing angles and timing is right....me thinks it's real.
Besides, where how would you find a picture of a catamaran at that angle from which to begin photoshopping?
I looked at the image a long time before I decided it was real. When boats pitchpole they do "pop out" sometimes. Ive seen it happen to Hurricane 5.9. The shadow looks right for the sail, as said above the boom looks right. The helm is in the right (wrong) position, the tiller is in the right place.
When I looked at your photoshop, I could tell instantly it was a fake, the lighting is wrong for starters.
Agree - look at the water coming from the port bow - it definitely just popped out of the water and judging from the water coming off the trampoline and such, I assume the boat was really deep at one point. I've had a cat get airborn like that before on me (a Nacra 6.0) and there were witnesses.
Jake Kohl
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[Re: Jake]
#48124 04/28/0506:50 AM04/28/0506:50 AM
I found the image in the gallery (good lord what a lot of flashy stuff going on there!). I couldn't figure out how to view the entire image, but here's the less adulterated version of the image:
Jake Kohl
Re: WOW
[Re: Jake]
#48125 04/28/0506:54 AM04/28/0506:54 AM
Jake, On the French website pictures, if you place your arrow over the file name an option to open the file in a popup window is displayed.
This chap has broken the golden rule of sailing A's, never ever let go of the boat, the boat will drift faster than you can swim, but I’d say he had no choice. Regards