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10-26-2017, 07:36 PM
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City: kemah
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 1,135
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Lost at sea for months?
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10-26-2017, 08:47 PM
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Guru
City: New Orleans
Vessel Name: Panache
Vessel Model: Viking 43 Double Cabin '76
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 1,246
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I have so many questions about this. Glad they're ok.
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10-26-2017, 08:58 PM
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City: Seattle
Vessel Name: AZZURRA
Vessel Model: Ocean Alexander 54
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 3,526
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Lost and off course because ther engine died?
Motorized compass?
Motorized sextant?
Motorized clock?
Motorized gps?
Motorized brain cells?
Dope smugglers who sampled!!!
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10-26-2017, 09:47 PM
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Senior Member
City: Bellingham, WA
Vessel Name: Excellent Adventure
Vessel Model: 1995 Jefferson Ker Shine 45
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 395
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what happened to the sails? was it not a SAILBOAT?
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10-26-2017, 09:56 PM
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Guru
City: Seabrook, Texas
Vessel Name: Small World
Vessel Model: Defever 50
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 611
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There’s a very good book, 439 Days, about a guy who survived more than a year adrift in a 25’ open boat. Great read.
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10-26-2017, 10:03 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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Story is a wee bit short on details, like how extensive the storm damage was.
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10-26-2017, 10:36 PM
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Guru
City: Sharon, Ma
Vessel Name: Slow Lane
Vessel Model: 2005 Silverton 35 Motoryacht
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 1,164
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C'mon! That article is so vague. We need details!
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2005 Silverton 35 Motoryacht
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10-26-2017, 10:40 PM
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Guru
City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 5,946
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10-26-2017, 10:52 PM
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Senior Member
City: NW Washington State
Vessel Name: Kingfisher
Vessel Model: 37' converted gillnetter/crabber
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 441
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I once knew a guy who was a recently retired executive living his life's dream. He had a big sloop built and sailed down the west coast of the US on the way to a circumnavigation. He had never sailed before in his life and didn't really know anything about navigation.
His wife got off in San Diego...she'd had enough...and he continued on southward picking up young adventurers along the way to help him sail the thing.
I met him in the Galapagos Islands where he had arrived with some Panamanian kid who'd never done any sailing before. They were headed for the Marquesas, something like a 2,000 mile crossing of open ocean. A guy I knew, a college student from Virginia, decided it looked like fun and joined them. He had never sailed, either.
No sextant; it would have been useless anyway since no one aboard knew anything about navigation. They had an electronic box...the old Transit SatNav system...and that was it.
I never heard from my buddy again. I've always wondered....
Of course, I'm making some assumptions about these two women in the news story, but that's an awfully damned long time to be drifting around without even being able to jury rig a mast stump and get someplace. Yikes.
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Anson & Donna
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~The Dalai Lama
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10-26-2017, 11:41 PM
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Senior Member
City: Houston
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 333
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Anyone remember that card game called,
"I Doubt It"?
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10-27-2017, 03:10 AM
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Guru
City: Boston Area
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 2,389
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This seems a little odd...... If the mast was still in place, and it seems to be from the pictures.....there ought to have been some way they could have gotten some sort of sail rigged. It might not have been perfect...but they had A LOT of time to work on it. PLUS.....they should have had an epirb.....who in their right mind would undertake a 2800 mile journey without an epirb, a back up GPS, multiple VHF systems....a sat phone.....so many things. They had the foresight to bring a years worth of food...but not an epirb ? Ignorance or stupidity.....not sure it matters.....they are very lucky to be alive.
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10-27-2017, 07:58 AM
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Guru
City: Palm Coast, FL
Vessel Name: Coquina
Vessel Model: Lagoon 380
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,476
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Yeah, quite suspicious. They should have just Googled how to fix a sailboat.
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10-27-2017, 08:10 AM
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Senior Member
City: NW Washington State
Vessel Name: Kingfisher
Vessel Model: 37' converted gillnetter/crabber
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 441
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Just saw a pic...mast and boom properly in place, mainsail bent on, jib rolled up neatly. Gross incompetence, scam, mental illness?
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Anson & Donna
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~The Dalai Lama
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10-27-2017, 09:19 AM
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Senior Member
City: Baltimore, MD
Vessel Name: Starshine
Vessel Model: 1989 Bayliner 3288
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 357
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabre602
Just saw a pic...mast and boom properly in place, mainsail bent on, jib rolled up neatly. Gross incompetence, scam, mental illness?
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Wanted their five minutes of cyber fame?
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10-27-2017, 09:20 AM
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Curmudgeon
City: Stoney Creek, MD
Vessel Name: Moon Dance
Vessel Model: 1974 34' Marine Trader Sedan
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,775
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Dropped their men's bodies over the side, but then realized they didn't even know how to hoist the sails.
Definitely more to this story!
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10-27-2017, 09:23 AM
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Guru
City: Palm Coast, FL
Vessel Name: Coquina
Vessel Model: Lagoon 380
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,476
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabre602
I once knew a guy who was a recently retired executive living his life's dream. He had a big sloop built and sailed down the west coast of the US on the way to a circumnavigation. He had never sailed before in his life and didn't really know anything about navigation.
His wife got off in San Diego...she'd had enough...and he continued on southward picking up young adventurers along the way to help him sail the thing.
I met him in the Galapagos Islands where he had arrived with some Panamanian kid who'd never done any sailing before. They were headed for the Marquesas, something like a 2,000 mile crossing of open ocean. A guy I knew, a college student from Virginia, decided it looked like fun and joined them. He had never sailed, either.
No sextant; it would have been useless anyway since no one aboard knew anything about navigation. They had an electronic box...the old Transit SatNav system...and that was it.
I never heard from my buddy again. I've always wondered....
Of course, I'm making some assumptions about these two women in the news story, but that's an awfully damned long time to be drifting around without even being able to jury rig a mast stump and get someplace. Yikes.
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I met a captain in the Freeport Bahamas custom line. He asked me what heading to take to get back to FL! 
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10-27-2017, 09:44 AM
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Guru
City: AR
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,401
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Storm knocked out engine, but they had enough power to run a watermaker and keep the radio charged to make distress calls for 5 months without anyway to charge batteries??? The gal in the photo looks very fit and tan, not sunburned--and so does the dog--to have spent anywhere near that much time in the summer sun surviving on oatmeal and pasta. They must have spent a lot of time below working out and creating the first draft of the book we all know will be coming.
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10-27-2017, 11:53 AM
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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I’m glad they didn’t have to eat the dogs!
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10-27-2017, 11:57 AM
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Guru
City: Seabrook, Texas
Vessel Name: Small World
Vessel Model: Defever 50
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 611
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
I’m glad they didn’t have to eat the dogs!
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I bet the dogs are, too!
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10-27-2017, 12:12 PM
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,603
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Quote:
Originally Posted by South of Heaven
C'mon! That article is so vague. We need details!
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Why?
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North Western Washington State USA
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