Can't even find the boat? Sounds like he defected.
This guy was good at computer science. I followed his career when he started on System R at IBM. We were building a similar system for Honeywell mainframes at the same time.
He wrote a super book on transaction processing.
A boatload of money is pretty worthless as a flotation device...
It can be a dangerous ocean between large waves and floating containers that have been washed off their ships. The Pacific moreso than the Atlantic. Let's hope all is well.
We were enroute Australia back in 1989, and came upon a sailboat steering one course with no one on deck. We tried to raise the vessel on VHF with no response. The cockpit was open, and so we sent a small boat to see if anyone was aboard.
We found no one. The iron mike was on, so we figured this guy fell overboard, had no tether or epirb, so the sailboat sailed off without its captain.
We called in another unit to tow her back. Eerie.
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I hope they find him. Lord knows the database field can use all the help it can get.
Lots of large Great Whites hang out at the Farollans.
Hmmm...there's no 'quick trip' to the Farallones in a sailboat. It's about a 60 mile round trip from the Golden Gate and a sailboat under sail, with the prevailing winds we've had lately (westerlies), would have to make at least a few tacks to get there. That adds even more to the mileage. Plus add in tidal and current influences...
Even under power averaging around 6 knots and a straight-line course, it's still a good bet that the round trip will take at least 12 to 14 hours, probably more.
Wave height for the last few days has been 4 to 6 feet and has been characterized by NOAA as swell.
For a boat to disappear like this, in these conditions, it has to be on the bottom. And it went there quickly. This is the classic 'ramming at sea' scenario. Big ship, little boat, inadequate look-out.
Dangerous waters, plenty of sharks. Doesn't sound good.
The scientific journals have been recently grumbling about free scientific information available on the Internet. Hmmmmm.....
Anyone know what sort of a sailboat the 40 footer was?
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Is it possible he was depressed over Vista?
Did this guy pack one of those $500 radio rescue beacons? He sure can't claim lack of funds. These expensive rescues are pissing me off when at least some of those who are lost SHOULD DEFINITELY had radio beacons