Check this out. Real or photoshop...??? http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/7933263/whale-crashes-onto-couples-yacht
Poods 
Hhhhhmmmmm.................so someone just happened to photograph it all so brilliantly?????????????????
Look at the shadows, outlines, and where the skipper is looking. I know what I think 
I say photoshopped. The sun is IMO fairly low at about 30deg off the port bow, judging by the shadow that the luff of the genoa casts onto the leach. The whale is aft of the port stay but casts the (photoshopped) shadow lining up with port stay. Therefore the sun must be port side and aft of the beam, also high in the sky as it doesn't cast any shade onto the boomcover.
Just my opinion though.
Mind you I reckon the boat looks like it has done a few rounds with a whale or maybe sledge hammer.
Have seen the "after" shot of the boat and it does look a mess. Still think that this one has been photoshopped for effect. If you had the camera pointing at the boat just as the whale breached then surely you would keep shooting and have some shots of the whale thrashing about on the dismasted boat. I think they may just happened to have taken a shot of the boat sailing along. Then some time later the event occured and the photographer came back and photographed the dismasted boat. Still convinced photo 1 is photoshopped.
I work quite extensively in the graphic industry, and teach and use
photoshop most of my days...... sorry guys but this looks RIDGY DIDGE
from the small photo i have seen. I'd be interested to see some with a
higher resolution to confirm or deny its authenticity.
But IMO its real.
I reckon it's as real as this one of me tow-in surfing at Lancelin a few years back..... 
....I've seen report of video floating around, but have not seen the proof.
Looking at the sun location, shadow on boat - particulalry wrt whale size & location, it's fake...
they done a story last night on nbn news showed pics after back of the boat in port with the mast laying on the deck and some damage done to the handrails and cockpit
Hmmm. You gotta ask yourself why??
why claim a whale landed on your yacht?
why is the top of the yacht so damaged?
why go to all this effort?
all points to if it smells like Sheet it probably is Sheet.
Still think its real though.
fake video too? go to the 4th image click next and it shows some videohttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/7933263/whale-crashes-onto-couples-yacht
Mmmmhhhhh.... INteresting video. Much harder to pick that one. So it could be the obvious - The story is true, just that the whale photo is obviously fake.
