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NutmegCT

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Doesn't this story sound a bit fishy? (sorry, couldn't resist)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41816709

They left Hawaii in May. They were rescued by Coast Guard in October.

There were no storms when the two said their boat was damaged by storms - on the second day at sea.

They never used emergency flares.

They never used the emergency satellite beacons because they never felt they were in danger. But the day they were rescued they said they wouldn't have lasted another 24 hours.

When the Coast Guard made contact with them in June near Tahiti, the captain said that they were not in distress and expected to return to land soon.

I wish Paul Harvey were still around to say "And now you know the *rest* of the story."

TM
(Why do I feel there's a book deal in the works ...)
 
Maybe they want to float a loan from a bank?
 
As soon as I heard they never deployed the beacon, the whole thing sounded fishy to me. A years supply of food and ample supply of water, hmmm, who carries that many supplies on a sailing trip when stopovers were supposedly on the schedule? Sounds like it was pretty well planned out. :rolleyes2: But I must say, I'm a little pessimistic on things like this. Look for the book in the future. :thumbsup:
 
I think the right response is "Pull the other one, it's got bells on!"
 
Doesn't fit the Coast Guard safety parameters. Been on the water some 40 yrs. and thought the story was bazaar. Who gets rescued and never realized until they were stopped that they were in trouble. Sailing the Pacific without a satellite phone is practically unheard of.
 
They said the engine failed but it is a sail boat. Did the wind fail as well? Maybe they were only going to use the motor.

Does not hold water. The story that is. Fortunately the boat kept the water out.

David
 
Bogus on its face.

1) It's a SAILBOAT!
2) There's an emergency beacon aboard...

How could anyone have sympathy for these two when there was ample food and water, a means of propulsion, hull intact and at LEAST a compass. My guess is they have NO sailing experience. This is a stunt. And the vessel was deemed "unseaworthy"?!?

Whole thing stinks.
 
And the 6 hour shark attack. Whole story seems to be falling apart line by line.
 
yea I wondered about it myself. The older appearing of the two women certainly didn't seem like she was in distress when saying they would have been dead in another 24 hours, looked pretty healthy and mentally upbeat to me. And I noticed in all the interviews shown, the younger looking one never said a word and didn't look comfortable in front if the camera, wonder if she'll break and tell a more accurate story?
 
Seems a bit fishy to me too.
 
Yes, it sounds fishy. My real question is about them being "rescued" and the boat being left to drift away. Wouldn't that be a navigational hazard?
 
Most likely taken in tow or if in really bad shape and not towable(cleats are not thru-hull) then it would have been sent down.
 
Does seem fishy from the picture
she looks like she was heaved over on her port side in some mangroves somewhere . Just saying...
 
Yet another: After a B-17 crash, 24 days on rafts in the south Pacific, WW2. Eddie Rickenbacker was one of the survivors.

https://www.historynet.com/eddie-ri...and-three-weeks-lost-in-the-pacific-ocean.htm


Rickenbacker just after rescue:

8_rick_rescued.jpg
 
Another good read - The Dove.My Sister knew Robin,& his Family,
when they lived just outside of Kalispell,Montana.They took me up there to
see the cabins that Robin had built.This was about 1974.

www.bluemoment.com/dove.html
 
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