nova 27 sailing yacht

Alternatively,

• Register with Facebook
• Register with Google

Why Boatshed?

View all of your boats statistics in real time

Create a virtual "watch" on boats you're interested in

Refer a boat and earn up to 20% of the brokers commission

Language & Currency

Search our catalog, go direct, enter a boat reference, £ 0 sold / unavailable.

• Boat REF#  ·  151461
• Length  ·  8.50m
• Year  ·  1974
• Construction  ·  GRP
• Underwater profile  ·  Long Keel
• Sleeping berths  ·  4
• Engine  ·  1 x diesel 10hp, Sabe (1974)
• Lying  ·  Swansea

Boatshed Swansea

This boat is off the market but here are some boats that are still for sale.

• Specification
• Additional Information

Extra Details

Sloop rigged Hurley Marine Aluminium spars (1974) with Stainless Steel standing rigging (2003)

Electrical Systems

12 volt battery, 3 batteries charged by: engine, wind generator

Construction

Long fin keel with encapsulated lead ballast. Hull is in a paint finish. Mahogany toe rails replaced 2008. Some scuff marks to topsides and deck paint. Wooden sliding hatch needing attention.

Accommodation

Cooker new in 2008. Eberspacher blown air heating. Minor window leaks have led to some cosmetic damage to internal woodwork and headlinings.

2 burner propane Stove

2 sheet winches Manual S&L windlass 2 anchors (Bruce and CQR) 28.00m of chain

Nav Equipment

Safety Equipment

1 bilge pumps (1 manual / 0 electric)

Broker's Comments

This Nova 27 is for sale due to lack of use. Currently afloat at Swansea Marina, this boat has unfortunately had little use over the last year and is looking very green and in need of a good scrub and some tlc.

The boat itself is spacious and has a generous main cabin which feels and gives the impression of being closer to a 30 footer.

A long keel, relatively heavy displacement and a handsome sheer line mark her out as a west coast yacht. She requires some work to bring her back to a state which she deserves.

These boat details are subject to contract. Note: Offers on the asking price may be considered.

Get Access to More

View unlimited photos of every boat

Walkthrough videos

VR 720° experiences

Get notified of new boats of your interest

Personalised boat recommendations

Save boats to 'My Boatshed'

Cost Of Ownership

Classifieds

Sold – nova 27 (fin keel yacht).

Please Read Our Disclaimer!

Cheap Boats

Sailing Cruiser Yacht – Nova 27

Advertised on August 12, 2020

Please note that some links on this website are affiliate links. We may receive a commission, at no extra cost to you, if you click through our links and make a purchase from one of our partners. See our Affiliate Disclosure for more details.

This is an auction to buy our Nova 27 yacht with no reserve. She is afloat on the River Dart and is available to take away from the end of the sale. She has 3 single berths, however the forecabin could easily be made into a double.The galley area contains a two burner gas cooker with oven and grill and external gas bottle. There is also a separate chemical toilet with a 10 litre capacity. A dry locker is sited opposite the toilet compartment.Navigational aids include Plastimo contest compass, Garmin 128 GPS, NASA marine target 2 depth sounder, sea voice RT650 VHF radio. Cruising speed 4 knots, max speed 6 knots. Fuel consumption 1/2 litre per hour.2 x 12 volt batteries charged by alternator. Bermudan sloop rig, stainless steel standing rigging (2003) slab reefed main sail, Rotostay furling genoa, storm main and storm jib. Two winches. Danforth CQr 25lb anchor 20 fm of 8mm chain, 15fm warp, manual bilge pump, fenders, boat hook, spry hood and dodgers. Anchor ball. cutlery, crockery pots and pans. Lifebuoy and two life jackets. 3 fire extinguishers. Epoxy coated in 1993.She sails very well and has a large comfortable cockpit area with under seating storage and tiller steerage. She has lazy jacks, recent boom cover and new dodgers this season. She had her hull cleaned on 31 July due to missing her annual lift out as a result of the pandemic. Since the lift she sails and motors very well.The mooring she is on is required for our new boat and is therefore not available to the purchaser who must collect her from the mooring.Please ensure you have a mooring or some where to take her prior to bidding.

Current Price: £16.00

This Sailing Cruiser Yacht – Nova 27 boat is located in Dartmouth, and is being sold on eBay by horse3450_0.

Advertisement

Video shows moments before superyacht went down in storm off Sicily

Newly released video captures a luxury superyacht being battered by a violent storm before it suddenly sank off Sicily with 22 people aboard Monday.

The grainy images obtained by NBC News and other outlets were recorded on closed-circuit television not far from where the Bayesian was anchored, about a half-mile from the port of Porticello, on Sicily’s northern coast .

The yacht's 250-foot mast, illuminated with lights and lashed by the storm, appears to bend to one side before it finally disappears and is replaced by darkness.

The speed with which a yacht built to handle the roughest seas capsized stunned maritime experts.  

“I can’t remember the last time I read about a vessel going down quickly like that, you know, completely capsizing and going down that quickly, a vessel of that nature, a yacht of that size,” said Stephen Richter of SAR Marine Consulting.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and five of the 22 other people who were aboard the 184-foot vessel remain unaccounted for and are believed to be trapped in the Bayesian’s hull, nearly 170 feet underwater.

Officials confirmed Monday that at least one person, the ship’s cook, had died.  

Superyachts like the Bayesian, which had been available for charters at a rate of $215,000 a week, are designed to stay afloat even as they are taking on water to give the people aboard a chance to escape, Richter said. 

“Boats of this size, they’re taking passengers on an excursion or a holiday,” Richter said. “They are not going to put them in situations where it may be dangerous or it may be uncomfortable, so this storm that popped up was obviously an anomaly. These vessels that carry passengers, they’re typically very well-maintained, very well-appointed.”

Built by Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi in 2008, the U.K.-registered Bayesian could carry 12 guests and a crew of up to 10, according to online specialist yacht sites. Its nearly 250-foot mast is the tallest aluminum sailing mast in the world, according to CharterWorld Luxury Yacht Charters. 

On Tuesday, Italian rescue workers resumed the search for Lynch and the five other passengers still missing: Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah; Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife.

“The fear is that the bodies got trapped inside the vessel,” Salvatore Cocina, the head of civil protection in Sicily, told Reuters .

The Bayesian is owned by a firm linked to Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, who was one of the 15 people rescued Monday after it capsized.

“It’s extremely rare for a boat of this size to sink,” Richter said.

What’s not rare is the kind of storm that sank it , said Simon Boxall, senior lecturer in oceanography at Britain’s University of Southampton.

“People assume the Mediterranean is this rather calm and passive place that never gets storms and always blue skies,” Boxall said. “In fact, you get some quite horrendous storms that are not uncommon at this time of year.”

The president of Italy’s meteorological society has said Monday’s violent storm may have involved a waterspout, essentially a tornado over water, or a downburst, which occurs more frequently but doesn’t involve the rotation of the air.

Luca Mercalli, president of the Italian Meteorology Society, also said recent temperatures may have been a factor. 

“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius [86 Fahrenheit], which is almost 3 degrees more than normal,” Mercalli told Reuters. “This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms.”

The Mediterranean sailing vacation was designed to be a celebration for Lynch, who two months ago was acquitted by a San Francisco jury of fraud charges stemming from the 2011 sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion.

Prosecutors alleged that Lynch, dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates,” and Autonomy’s vice president for finance, Stephen Chamberlain, had padded the firm’s finances ahead of the sale. Lynch’s lawyers argued that HP was so eager to acquire Autonomy that it failed to adequately check the books .

Lynch had taken Morvill, who was one of his defense attorneys, on the luxury trip. 

Chamberlain was not on the Bayesian.

In what appears to be a tragic coincidence, a car struck and killed Chamberlain on Saturday as he was jogging in a village about 68 miles north of London, local police said.

“Steve fought successfully to clear his good name at trial earlier this year, and his good name now lives on through his wonderful family,” Chamberlain’s lawyer, Gary Lincenberg, said in a statement .

Henry Austin reported from London and Corky Siemaszko from New York City.

Henry Austin is a senior editor for NBC News Digital based in London.

Corky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.

100-Year-Old Sailing Ship Uncovered by Flash Flooding on Nova Scotia Beach

Canada’s East Coast is a rough place to sail . Over the centuries, many a ship has met its end in the area , and heavy rains recently exposed a sailing ship that has been hidden for over a century.

Summerville, Nova Scotia is a tiny little town. The water off its coast is connected to the Bay of Fundy — a place with some of the biggest tide swings in the world — and the beach completely disappears under nearly 50 feet of water on a high tide.

A few months ago, however, flash flooding pushed a huge amount of sand off the beach, and one of three abandoned vessels became visible at low tide.

“Most people thought that was the wharf, but they didn’t know there was three ships buried in the sand,” said Wilfred Ogilvie to Global News .

According to reports, the ships were visible until sometime in the ’70s.

“They even had a big bunkhouse here because between the (gypsum) quarry and the docks and everything that was here,” Ogilvie remembered. “There was close to 100 men used to work here.”

Ogilvie said that the boat that was uncovered is likely the Hamburg, “a three-masted wooden vessel with square sails built in nearby Hantsport and launched in 1886.”

When the Hamburg was built, ship nails were made from wood.

“They didn’t use much steel like bolts and things. In those days everything was wood, of course,” Ogilvie explained.

Once the steam engine was invented, though, the Hamburg and her sails were abandoned at a wharf that sat where the wrecks now reside. That wharf burned down in 1936, but the wrecks remained there.

“And for years they sat there and probably sunk pretty well every day,” Ogilvie said. “And then the gravel started building in around them, and finding their little holes, and (they) were pretty well buried as we’ve seen here today.”

Published on August 27th, 2024 | by Editor

Former Bayesian captain offers insight

Published on August 27th, 2024 by Editor -->

Stephen Edwards , captain of the 58.6m Perini Navi built Seahawk, was previously Captain from 2015 to 2020 for the 56m Perini Navi Bayesian which sank August 19 with seven deaths while at anchor off the coast of Porticello, Italy.

While investigators seek answers for why a storm downburst led to this tragedy, and whether manslaughter and negligent shipwreck are to be brought, Edwards issued the following statement from his experience with the 2008 yacht:

Having been bombarded with requests for information from journalists around the World for my input into the loss of S/Y Bayesian a week ago, I have finally decided to make some notes on the subject.

I have no desire to contribute to the wild speculation and claims that we have seen so far, or in any way suggest what really happened… only those on board at the time will know that, but I can shed some light on the characteristics of the vessel and some of the limitations that would likely be involved in this disaster.

Bayesian (ex Salute) was a 56m Perini Navi, part of a very successful series of hulls. She was the only one built as a sloop rig (single mast), with the tallest aluminum mast ever constructed. I’m going to discuss step-by-step what I hope are pertinent facts about the boat and her design and operation that are relevant to this event.

1. Mast The mast and rig were certainly a major feature of the yacht and presented structural challenges in construction and ongoing life. As it pushed the boundaries of aluminum mast construction there were lessons that had to be learned over the years, but the result was a robust and well controlled rig in the end that performed well, within the limits of the design. The vessel is delivered with a set of sailplan recommendations that for a range of wind strengths will cause the vessel to sail within the structural limits of the rig and heeling limits of the hull.

2. Ballast The height of Bayesian’s mast was of course considered in the overall design of the boat by Perini’s engineers. To this end she was equipped with an extra 30T of lead ballast in her keel box (we’ll come to that in a bit) compared to the 56m ketch rigged sister ships. This was to counter the extra mass, higher center of gravity and higher center of effort (from sailing forces) that the sloop rig created.

The main lead ballast was contained in a more or less rectangular box (keel box) attached below the canoe shaped part of the hull. The precise mass of this ballast I do not recall, but it’s probably around 200T or so. In the center part of this box there is the moveable keel, which weighed around 60T and extended almost 6m below the keel box when lowered. This arrangement means that the majority of the righting moment of the vessel comes from the main ballast… the moveable keel acting more as a centerboard to reduce sideslip under sail (leeway)…

3. Stability All yachts such as Bayesian are delivered with a “Stability information Book”. This document is approved by the flag state of the boat and defines the loading and operation limits. It also contains information on the righting characteristics. The operational limitations defined in the stability book must be adhered too at all times which is the responsibility of the master.

One section of the Bayesian Stability book related to the use of the moveable keel… and defines when it must be lowered. In this vessel’s case it was required to be lowered when using sails, and/ or when over 60 nautical miles offshore (regardless of whether sailing or only using engines). At all other times, it could be in the raised position.

The stability book also contains information regarding righting angles and the watertight integrity of the hull. There are two important numbers here… Angle of Vanishing Stability (AVS) and the Downflooding Angle.

The Angle of Vanishing Stability is the angle of heel at which the vessel righting moment reaches zero, meaning that the vessel will not return to upright. Again, I forget the actual numbers for this, but the figures would be around 90 degrees with the moveable keel lowered and 75 degrees with it raised.

The Downflooding Angle is much more important though in the scenario we are talking about. This is the angle of heel at which water will start to enter the vessel (usually through engine room or accommodation ventilation ducts)… once this starts the vessels is in serious trouble as stability is quickly reduced or lost due to the flooding.

The downflooding angle for Bayesian was around 40-45 degrees… much less than the AVS. So, unless the vent dampers are closed (which with HVAC systems and generator running they would NOT be as they need to be open for that), the vessel will start to flood rapidly if heeled more than the downflooding angle.

4. Hull Openings Bayesian had only one shell door in the hull, on the port side aft. As this was very close to the waterline, it was rarely used (remembering the extra 30T of ballast mentioned earlier… this caused the water line to be 100mm higher than other 56m Perinis, hence much closer to the bottom of the shell opening meaning it could only be opened in flat calm conditions… 100% it was NOT open at night)

There are no opening windows or portholes, which are all made from laminated marine glass bonded to the hull & superstructure.

Other deck hatch / superstructure openings that breach the watertight integrity on Bayesian are on or close to the centerline of the vessel. For these to be taking water if open, the vessel would have to be heeled way beyond the Downflooding Angle mentioned earlier, and hence already flooding via ducting/vents.

Only one opening was located far from the centerline, and could be vulnerable to downflooding at lower angles of heel… this is the deck access to the lazarette area towards the stern. However, as it is located on the port (left) side of the aft deck, it would be unlikely to be an initial factor in this scenario as we know that Bayesian was knocked down to starboard, and as such this hatch, even if opened as crew were on deck etc, would have been one of the later parts to submerge.

5. Summary The vessel Bayesian was sound and seaworthy by design, and to my knowledge well maintained as such. However, heeling her to more than around 45 degrees while in normal operational state could result in flooding and subsequent loss if the flooding could not be controlled.

The weather conditions that could have created these extreme circumstances can indeed occur with very little warning and being so localized are difficult to prepare for, leaving a very short time for the crew to react.

How the vessel came to be taken outside her operation limits is what the investigators will need to determine, which I’m sure they will.

Tags: Bayesian tragedy , Perini Navi , Stephen Edwards

Related Posts

VIDEO: Reviewing the Bayesian tragedy →

Did anchor sway contribute to Bayesian tragedy? →

Why did Bayesian sink? →

Did social trends lead to yacht tragedy? →

© 2024 Scuttlebutt Sailing News. Inbox Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. made by VSSL Agency .

• Privacy Statement
• Advertise With Us

Get Your Sailing News Fix!

Your download by email.

• Your Name...
• Your Email... *
• Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Alternatively,

• Register with Facebook
• Register with Google

Why Boatshed?

View all of your boats statistics in real time

Create a virtual "watch" on boats you're interested in

Refer a boat and earn up to 20% of the brokers commission

Language & Currency

Search our catalog, go direct, enter a boat reference, £ 0 sold / unavailable.

• Boat REF#  ·  120557
• Length  ·  8.50m
• Year  ·  1974
• Construction  ·  GRP
• Underwater profile  ·  Fin
• Sleeping berths  ·  4
• Engine  ·  1 x diesel 10hp, Sabb (1974)
• Lying  ·  Neyland, Pembrokeshire

Boatshed Wales

This boat is off the market but here are some boats that are still for sale.

• Specification
• Additional Information

Extra Details

Engine had top end overhaul Nov 2007 with new silencer and elbow.

Sloop rigged Hurley Marine Aluminium spars (1974) with Stainless Steel standing rigging (2003)

Storm jib and Spinnaker both unused. Cruising chute with snuffer. New sacrificial strip to Genoa.

Electrical Systems

12 volt battery, 3 batteries charged by: engine, wind generator

Construction

Long fin keel with encapsulated lead ballast. Hull is in a paint finish. Mahogany toe rails replaced 2008. Some scuff marks to topsides and deck paint. Wooden sliding hatch needing attention.

Accommodation

Cooker new in 2008. Eberspacher blown air heating. Minor window leaks have led to some cosmetic damage to internal woodwork and headlinings.

2 burner propane Stove

2 sheet winches Manual S & L windlass 2 anchors (Bruce & CQR) 28.00m of chain The full cockpit cover adds a comfortable extra 'cabin' to this already roomy yacht.

Nav Equipment

Safety Equipment

1 bilge pumps (1 manual / 0 electric)

Broker's Comments

The Nova 27 is actually just short of 28' in length but even more impressive, she feels like a thirty footer when you walk her decks. A long fin keel, relatively heavy displacement and a handsome sheer line mark her out as a west coast yacht. She's rugged, well built and sea kindly with the potential for some serious passage making. Her accomodation iwould be comfortable for four but ideal for two and she benefits from a full cockpit cover and eberspacher blown air heating. However, she requires some work to bring her back to a state which she deserves, cosmetically at least. She has lain neglected ashore for the last two years and is sadly for sale due to ill health - she could be launched and sailed as she is as there is nothing mechanically or structurally wrong as far as we can tell. She would reward a new owner who can see beyond the boatyard grime, and at a bargain basement price! These boat details are subject to contract. Note: Offers on the asking price may be considered.

Get Access to More

View unlimited photos of every boat

Walkthrough videos

VR 720° experiences

Get notified of new boats of your interest

Personalised boat recommendations

Save boats to 'My Boatshed'

Mike de Graaf

Cost Of Ownership

More From Forbes

Tensions and hostility against america’s cup sailing competition ‘for the rich’ in barcelona.

• Share to Facebook
• Share to Twitter
• Share to Linkedin

The Red Bull Alinghi AC75 boat sails pass The American Magic AC75 'Patriot' boat during a training ... [+] session in Barcelona. Photo by David Ramos

Resentment against the effects of massive tourism has been brewing for years in Barcelona, and that sentiment has reached new heights this summer precisely as the America’s Cup , the world’s premier sailing competition, starts and becomes the latest target of protests and criticism.

Protesters are blasting the oldest sporting race in the world that runs from August 22 to October 27 as ‘elitist and opaque’, claiming that it’s “just for rich people,” driving up prices for locals and putting the Spanish city under more pressure.

The Platform Against the America’s Cup, created last year to fight “against an event that will generate mass tourism and is already causing the massive diversion of housing to seasonal rentals,” as stated on their site, has said that new protests against the event are being organized as six teams compete to claim the 37th victory of the yacht race .

“A lot of people involved in the race have taken up long-term rents on apartments in the city center and pushed up prices for local people,” Martí Cuso of the Platform warned. “There will be protests coming in the first week of September.”

New Password Hacking Warning For Gmail, Facebook And Amazon Users

Trump vs. harris 2024 polls: harris leads trump in latest post-dnc surveys, today’s nyt mini crossword clues and answers for wednesday, august 28th.

Poster by The Platform Against the America’s Cup in Barcelona

According to the daily La Vanguardia of Barcelona, “the America's Cup 2024 disguises the agony of beach clubs in Barcelona and all Catalonia.”

The article explains how, paradoxically, the celebration in Barcelona of the oldest regatta in the world coincides with the demolition of local nautical clubs. “This global event hides the anguish of Catalan sailing clubs threatened by a rigid enforcement of the State Coastal Law.”

“The great legacy that the Cup will bring for Barcelona is the recovery of the coast,” Barcelona’s mayor told El Periodico newspaper.

Las Ramblas pedestrian street with crowds of tourists

Looking for “Quality Tourism”....for the rich

From the official side, The America’s Cup — the ultimate sporting competition for the super-rich — is, in fact, an effort by city officials to attract “quality, rather than quantity” tourism.

The yacht competition is sponsored by the luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton , which in late May had already organized a star-studded fashion show in the Park Güell, one of Barcelona’s most popular tourist attractions, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, that caused serious clashes between residents protesting the closure of the park for the glitzy event and baton-wielding police charging at protesters.

A model parades during a Louis Vuitton fashion show at Park Guell on May 24, 2024, in Barcelona, ... [+] planned as part of the 37th America's Cup. Photo By Lorena Sopena

Since then, anger has been growing over the fact that the city is being overrun by tourists and glitzy international events to the detriment of local life.

“Local people say they have been bombarded with calls from estate agents and speculators wanting to buy their homes to cash in on the event, which they say is pushing up rents” the Guardian writes.

Two models of AC75 sailboats during the first day of the last preliminary race of the America's Cup, ... [+] in the Port of Barcelona, on 22 August, 2024. Photo By Alberto Paredes

Displaced by the crowds

Much of the local population has already been driven out of the areas of Barcelona most affected by mass tourism and campaigners fighting for more stringent controls argue that “rather than attracting a ‘better’, high-spending type of tourist, events such as the America’s Cup simply bring more people to a city already struggling to cope with the mass of visitors.”

Those who live near hot spots in the city are frustrated with daily life where, as reported in the New York Times , they feel “displaced by the crowds; pollution along the waterfront where massive cruise ships dock; and everywhere, it seems, an apparent disregard for local culture.”

Jaume Collboni, the socialist mayor of Barcelona, has said that the contest will bring €1.2 billion in revenue for the city, and create jobs. Critics, on the other hand, say that the potential income from the lavish competition will be enjoyed by few as the tournament itself is followed mostly by the elites.

“This is not like the Olympics, where people are interested in the sport,” Cuso told the web news site i . “This is just for rich people who can afford to go and see the yachts on their own boats at sea.”

He went further to explain that the yachts are sponsored by luxury brands that want to use Barcelona to promote their products.

America's Cup trophy

Tensions and hostility rising

Tensions over tourism that finally boiled over into outright hostility has triggered splashy headlines globally, such as the incident last month when some 3,000 residents took to the streets to protest against tourism , some squirting visitors on the city’s famed boulevard Las Ramblas with water guns.

In 2023, 12 million tourists visited Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million residents, making it the favorite destination in Spain. This year, tourism officials ex[ect at least 13 million visitors.

“Their impact includes skyrocketing housing prices, dirty beaches, crowded thoroughfares and the transformation of historic neighborhoods into what locals refer to as “theme parks,” The New York Times writes.

Barcelona is the second Spanish city to host the competition. Valencia hosted two consecutive editions in 2007 and 2010.

Security reinforcements

As for the multi-million pound America’s Cup, a major security operation has been launched around the event and competition areas with more than 650 police deployed in land, six boats patrolling the sea and helicopters flying above Barcelona. The Civil Guard has also deployed divers to reinforce security at sea.

Following years of technological innovation and hundreds of millions of euros of investment from super-rich backers, the Emirates Team New Zealand will be defending the title against challenges by boats from Italy, Switzerland, France, the U.K. and the U.S.

At the round-robin stage, which will last until September 8, each challenger crew races each other twice, with the top four progressing to the semi-finals. Those Challengers of Record will face-off against the reigning champions in a series of races in October.

Most of the teams have had established bases for training in Port Vell, the city’s old port, since last year.

The America’s Cup was first staged on the Isle of Wight in 1851 and is claimed to be the oldest international sporting event in the world. It was last held in 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand, and was won by the hosts.

• Editorial Standards
• Reprints & Permissions

Join The Conversation

One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. 

Forbes Community Guidelines

Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.

In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site's  Terms of Service.   We've summarized some of those key rules below. Simply put, keep it civil.

Your post will be rejected if we notice that it seems to contain:

• False or intentionally out-of-context or misleading information
• Insults, profanity, incoherent, obscene or inflammatory language or threats of any kind
• Attacks on the identity of other commenters or the article's author
• Content that otherwise violates our site's  terms.

User accounts will be blocked if we notice or believe that users are engaged in:

• Continuous attempts to re-post comments that have been previously moderated/rejected
• Racist, sexist, homophobic or other discriminatory comments
• Attempts or tactics that put the site security at risk
• Actions that otherwise violate our site's  terms.

So, how can you be a power user?

• Stay on topic and share your insights
• Feel free to be clear and thoughtful to get your point across
• ‘Like’ or ‘Dislike’ to show your point of view.
• Protect your community.
• Use the report tool to alert us when someone breaks the rules.

Thanks for reading our community guidelines. Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site's  Terms of Service.