[Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes

[Wally Buck]

Thanks for the additional info, I still don't understand how the dismasting 
happened???? Strange.

Wally


>From: "Bill Berner" <dblbld@attglobal.net>
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>To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:40:07 -0400
>
>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
>191 South Broadway
>Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
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>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Christine
>Allison
>Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:59 AM
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>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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