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You say that like it's a bad thing - ?
Yeah that Gilligan was a real dunce ;)
Posted on 10/26/2017 1:08:53 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Edited on 10/26/2017 4:42:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Good thing it wasn’t a three hour tour, or they would have been stuck on an island for years.
The Pacific Ocean is really big.
Jennifer Appel looks to be in very good shape for a person that had been lost at sea for five months.
Whadddowegot - two dykes in a dingy?
Great job by the US Navy. Incredibly bizarre story though. OK, so the engine failed. It’s a sailboat. It seems that instead of just floating along, one could randomly choose just about any direction but south and eventually hit some sort of landmass
I know nothing about sailing. Water purifiers and 1 year supply of food seem smart, but wondering about having no ability to repair motor, and no navigation equipment (or skills to navigate by star)
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You say that like it's a bad thing - ?
Yeah that Gilligan was a real dunce ;)
No spare GPS batteries and apparently no coconuts to recharge the ones they had.
Oatmeal is very nutritious. I’ve been living on it for years and aside from the health issue that is causing the good intolerance, am in really very good health otherwise.
I’m sure they supplemented with sea food for protein.
I wonder, though, what possessed them to take along a year’s supply of food.
They had a radio but no GPS?
They knew they had no guys to drive.
Incredible! Anyone with an IQ above 75 would have had a solar panel charging batteries and a GPS unit (best to have several!). Perhaps they bought the sailboat and never learned to sail..., relying on the engine? This ranks up there with "Here Bubba..., hold my beer and watch this!"
“Yeah that Gilligan was a real dunce ;)”
All the men were. Hot women and not one of them pounced on any of the 2? Gaaayyyyyyy
The dogs were luckiest of all...
True. Sailboats sail and their auxiliary engines,are mainly for getting in and out of harbors. Several hand held GPS units, Costing about $100 apiece, would have enabled them to find their position at most times. Then there’s always a,compass, a clock, a sextant, and a chart that will enable a,Navigator to determine her position whenever the weather’s reasonably clear. As a reasonably experienced Lake Michigan sailor, I can say they really screwed up and are lucky to be alive.
I read that every Naval vessel has a sextant and a copy of The American Practical Navigator by Bowditch.
That and some knowledge on how to use the instruments would be quite helpful, I would think.
“primarily oatmeal, pasta and rice.”
All which requires copious amounts of water, and heat to boil it with. Is cooking such in saltwater a nutritionally good idea? else how much pure water did they have? Maybe a desalination system on board, but what resources limit its use? Whither fuel?
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