razeontherock
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Pretty big. 40ft long and 20 tons. (that is the record size for one) Second largest fish in the world.
Thought they could get longer. I sailed past one, so close I could've grabbed it's dorsal fin. Had no idea what it was, and this was a good 3 days at sea; not exactly where you want to find yourself suddenly with a large hole in your boat! 27' feet long, with me sitting at the helm I would be almost 5' out of the water, and would not have had to reach down to grab the fin. At that point we had sailed over the snout, and the tail fin was well forward of the mast. That is one big fish! (Glass calm seas, no ability to maneuver, boat never did touch the critter, didn't find out what it was til a trip to the library)
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