[Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes

[Bill Berner]

I found an article in today's NY Times, with some info I hadn't heard.
I paraphrase for the sake of those who haven't heard any details.

The guy was a live aboard, seems pretty itinerant.  He was headed the
25nm from San Diego to Catalina and sleeping when he was dismasted.  He
apparently awoke in the morning to find the mast in the water and sails
under the boat.  Wind had turned from easterly to southerly.  No mention
of storms.  Maybe the rig just failed.  I don't understand how you sleep
through a dismasting unless there was a susbstance abuse component that
wasn't mentioned, the the sleeping through was a misstatement.

He recovered the mast and lashed it to the boat.  He caught fish, cut
them up and tied them to the mast.  When the seagulls flew done to snack
on the fish bits, he clubbed them with his bat.

According to him, the engine would not run because there was water in
his fuel.

He did have power.  In fact he watched videos while drifting about,
powered by solar cells!  So the radio failure was obviously not lack of
DC.


BB

Bill Berner
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Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706

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-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Christine
Allison
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:59 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes


> Is this the same list that just a few weeks ago didn't see much of a
problem
> taking a 22 foot boat more than 50 miles across the gulf stream to the
> Bahamas during hurricane season?>

In fact the passage to Catalina Island (weekend jaunt) is frequently
made by
modest boats.  Not so a passage across the Gulf Stream!

Richard Smith

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