[News]: Giant Squid Attacks French Boat - BBC News

The following message is doing the rounds right now (thanks Phil), so I've pasted it here.

Indeed, as expected, it was a hoax, but I'm afraid we'll hear the story for years to come - it received so much press.
...........

Apparently the bare facts are, that the racing trimaran 'Geronimo'
got something snagged on its rudder, and they had to come to
a full stop to cut it loose and make repairs. Tongue-in-cheek,
they radioed their base-station to report that a Giant Squid had
attached itself to the boat and was hanging on for dear life.
They kept up the premise for several hours, but then listed the
incident in their official log simply as: stopped to repair rudder.
http://www.broadband-my-ass.com/strips/081602-14552.jpg

It now seems clear the whole thing was a big 'Fish Tale'. ...

The navigation on their grandsrecords.com site is a little wacky,
but the English-language news entry for 13-JAN reads:
"...a giant cephalopod became tangled up around the rudder blade.
It took over an hour before the creature released its grip..."
But I think they were speaking metaphorically. They're now
declining to carry the gag any futher than it's already gone.
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/lyrics/24076/

It was their base station / support center that called the media.

A photo posted later shows them dead in the water, mucking around
with a large net or sail lying in the water. Might be their 'Squid':

http://www.grandsrecords.com/ker/rec/fr/graph/minisite/photo/tjv2003/jour4_2.jpg
grandsrecords
 
Fujisawas Sake said:
Tani,

Yeah baby, Yeah! 8)

"I smoke two squids in the morning... I smoke two squids at night... I smoke two more in the afternoon ... Dey make me feel allright..."

Hey John,

I've never smoked squid, but I have smoked salmon (usually with bagels and cream cheese). It's not only legal, it's kosher!

:goldfish: * FISHYLICIOUS *
 

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