I wonder if it was this storm?
I've been reading her blog about her voyage since she left California.
I will be profoundly heartbroken if something has happened to her.
Please pray for this remarkable young lady.
pirates, child molesters on boats, drug traffickers, commies anything could happen to her.
If only she had had responsible parents...
Yes, and prayers are up...
Her Facebook page has a *ton of young people praying for her, including my son.
Im not complaining but search is your friend
That's a lot of ocean. I wonder how close help is to her last position?
I’ve been watching her blog also. Her whole voyage hasn’t really gone well with her boat. Praying they find her.
A Rough Few Days
The last few days have pretty busy out here. I’ve been in some rough weather for awhile with winds steady at 40-45 knots with higher gusts. With that front passing, the conditions were lighter today. It was a nice day today with some lighter winds which gave me a chance to patch everything up. Wild Eyes was great through everything but after a day with over 50 knots at times, I had quite a bit of work to do.
For most of the day today I had about 20 knots. I had been hoping to get some lighter winds so I could patch up one of my sails. It was still a bit windy out but with more rough weather tomorrow I wasn’t sure when my next chance to fix it would be. I managed to take it down, take care of the tear and get it back up in a couple of hours. It wasn’t the most fun job I have done out here. With the seas still huge, Wild Eyes was rolling around like crazy. Of course not even half and hour after I got the sail back up the wind dropped from 20 to 10 knots!
My Thrane & Thrane (Internet) system is down again so I am not able to send in my blog. The problem seems a bit more serious than the last few times I have had trouble with it. There is something wrong with the terminal at the back. It is possible that water got inside of it because it has a rough ride back there the past few days with waves crashing right over it. Unfortunately, if that is the problem I probably won’t be able to fix it. At least I still have my Iridium phones so I can still call in to my mom and read her my bog for her to post.
The wind is beginning to pick up. It is back up to 20 knots and I am expecting that by midnight tonight I could have 35-50 knots with gusts to 60 so I am off to sleep before it really picks up.
Posted by Abby Sunderland at 9:49 AM
“the search began for Abby Sunderland somewhere between Africa and Australia”
thats a huge area. Surely they know more specifically than that?
In looking at marinetraffic.com, there seems to be a lot of cargo and tanker activity in her general area....hopefully someone will spot her....
Completely and utterly irresponsible that her parents allowed this.
They were then and they are now. With grief I'll wager.
She had another website that was referenced on this thread, too, but that one seems to have been discontinued, in place of this blog that she has now. There was both, before, but now only the blog.
The other one had "tracking" for her and her daily progress... but that's not there now.
She lit off two EPIRBs by hand. My guess is she’s dismasted, and/or injured. This is not the end of the world. The EPIRBs will lead rescuers straight to her. (They send a GPS location out.) If her EPIRBs are making about 5kts downwind, I’d say she’s in her boat but adrift/dismasted. If her EPIRBs are matching ocean current speeds, she may be in a raft. But a raft is doubtful. Getting in one is extremely risky in those seas. Her drill will be to stay in the boat until it sinks from under her. I’m guessing she’s in her boat, dismasted, hence all other comms (antennas) are down. But her EPIRBs are handheld devices.
I think they’ll find her, and she’ll have a great story to tell. Hopefully she’s not injured. It’s easy to get hurt if the mast goes down, or if your boat is rolled. Real easy.
What kind of morons let their child do such a dumb thing?
Thanks, Jotmo. Updates here: http://www.knx1070.com/
I salute her courage. I hope she makes it.
I wouldn’t want to live in a homogenized safe adventureless world where kids can’t do anything remotely dangerous.