Posted on 11/01/2017 10:51:38 PM PDT by zeestephen
NASA imagery casts more doubt on the story of two women who claimed they were lost at sea for five months before being heroically rescued last week.
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That’s more like a beagle than a beacon.
They wanted a movie deal.
Not for a bunch of lies.
#10. Re the dog. Who says that a dog is only “a man’s best friend”?
Poor dog. Wonder what the kids are going to look like?
*Real* sailors, don’t wear crocs.
Or maybe it’s a subliminal message about their *tale*.
“In 1982, Ruiz was arrested for embezzling $60,000 from a real estate company where she worked. She spent one week in jail and was sentenced to five years’ probation. She then moved back to South Florida, where she was arrested in 1983 for her involvement in a cocaine deal. She was sentenced to three years’ probation.”
Once a fraud, always a fraud.
Exactly correct 100%. I entered the thread to post exactly what you posted. GMTA
the two women likely sailed to the isle of lesbos and stayed for while
From an AP story referenced in your article:
The captain of the fishing vessel, the Fong Chun No. 66, who identified himself as Mr. Chen in a satellite phone call from the AP, said his boat received a mayday radio call but did not understand it. They then saw someone waving a white object on a boat about a nautical mile away.
When they approached, the women asked to use the satellite phone on the fishing vessel and for a tow to Midway Island. The larger vessel towed the smaller sailboat overnight. In the morning, the women wanted to stop the towing and called for a naval vessel.
“We offered to get them on board the fishing boat and asked whether they needed water or food, but they refused,” the captain said.
The fishermen left after the arrival of the U.S.S. Ashland.
Hawaii sailing experts say the trip itself was a bad idea.
Mike Michelwait, owner of the Honolulu Sailing Company, a sailing school and charter company, has sailed the route from Hawaii to Tahiti several times. He said the trip would normally take about 17 days with sailors who could stay on course.
But, Michelwait said, he would not take such a trip with any less than three experienced sailors.
“There’s only two of them on board, and it’s a 50-foot boat,” he said. “That’s a lot of boat to handle.”
the professional sailing community thinks these 2 girls are worse than dumbsh*t halfwits. These type of sailors endanger others by being a harzard to navigation.
Some technical answers
1) water ? most blue water sailors have a reverse osmosis pump on board - could be hand driven ( 1 hour of pumping equals 1 person 1 day water supply )
2) Storm ? Noobs such as these girls will always describe the seastate and winds as 3-10x reality. It’s normal.
I will say the photo of them on the dock does not look like anyone I have ever seen coming from a long voyage. The girls may have cleaned up well, but ....
There’s some really bad timing in that picture.
The dog looks smarter than those two “lost at sea” skags.
They all seemed very spry, happy, and healthy on the day of their rescue. Even the dogs. So often in other stories, if they’re found at all, their craft is a shambles and everyone looks beat-up. I figured someone closer to the story with more experience could explain it or find discrepancies.
I guess the book deal and the movie deal are gonzo.
Not a sailor, but married to one.
That boat rides high in the water, if you look at the filth along the waterline where it evidently sat for several months. A years worth of food would weigh a lot.
The mast is intact.
The sails are furled and secured. Did a sheet break? A line? Why couldn’t they raise and control the sails?
A 50-footer berthed in Hawaii. Pricey boat; pricey mooring.
Now, as a woman who works with her hands and cannot keep long nails or a manicure: I see nice white nails on the blond.
I have spent 3 months at a time in the tropics in the South Pacific. I’m not blonde, but that woman does not have a 5-month tropical, on-the-water-tan. If she’s really fair, where is the 5 months of sunburn? The other woman tans. I can see the tan line where her sleeves end. She is also very light for 5 months on the water.
Neither of them show hair exposed for 5 months to salt water, sun and wind.
Stinks. 15-year-olds sail around the world alone and they can’t make a popular passage that takes 2 1/2 weeks? Did no cruisers see them?
Milli Vanilli
What, you never saw Gilligan's Island? Passengers on that ill-fated voyage brought along years worth of personal belongings, including enough clothes to be able to wear something different every day! That is, all except Gilligan, the skipper, and perhaps the professor, who wore the same set of clothing every single day for the duration. But at least the professor was wise enough to take along a complete library of his science books. And the Howells, a pirate's chest of cash money. And that was only supposed to be a THREE HOUR CRUISE!
I would think they would also look half out of their minds if they had been stranded on a tiny boat in the middle of the ocean for five long months. Yet they appeared perfectly healthy and composed.
We all know they just needed a man to give them the right directions.
Pictures of the boat show grunge well above the waterline. The only boats I have seen that dirty had been sitting all summer in still water funky canals along Lake St. Clair here in Michigan.....
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