Posted on 02/10/2018 7:58:49 PM PST by Innovative
A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.
Within two days, their dream became a nautical nightmare. On their way to Key West, Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh's voyage abruptly ended in John’s Pass off Madeira Beach, Fla., when their 28-foot sailboat struck something underwater Wednesday night.
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The boat cost $5,000.
If that is their life savings, it is lucky for them that the boat sank, so now they can start over, get a job and save 6 or 7 grand and buy a safer boat. S/Off
Decades ago I fell in love with Deep Sea fishing. I have owned 6 different fishing boats, two in the 30 foot range. Took the courses, read the books, learned how to sail, even have a trophy for winning a Regatta.
Anybody who spends time on the water knows “stuff happens”. I tore a 4 foot hole in the bottom of a 22 foot Wellcraft at 40 mph in 10 feet of water. Hit an obstruction that wasn’t on the charts. Bent a prop and shaft on a 30 foot Albe in Oregon Inlet. It is lie a surgeon who boasts no morbidity. He is either lying or never actually did surgery. Stuff happens and you had best be ready to deal with it or you get hurt and sometimes you have to deal with it fast. Keep a knife where you can get to it quick. Saved a bent rail when a “guest” tied my bow off in rough water once. I got there less than a second before “too late”. After I cut the line he just stood there shocked, a madman had just rushed him I and produced a nice out of nowhere faster than he could comprehend. I know of at least one mate who got pulled over by a tuna who apparently could not get to a knife fast enough. Stuff happens and the more time you rack up the more likely, not less. Survivors learn how to deal with it.
Sounds like a nice day in the Bering ...
This reminds me of the Cessna pilot asking control tower for speed check. Tower says I have you at 150 knots. Thanks tower. Cessna out; another pilot asks same tower same question, tower say I have you at 720 knots. Thanks tower, F-15 out; another voice asks tower same question, tower replies I have you at 3,500 knots. Thanks tower. SR-71 out ...
The last time I heard the name Broadwell, the story did not end well.
Yea 5 thou looks like the had done real well.
What were they paling on living on for assets, the “State of Fl”
Marinas in S Fla are loaded with dead enders like these two.
Charts? Aren't those like maps? /s
GPS voice: "recalculating..."
Kids today don't do charts. The GPS tells them where to go. Heaven forbid there is nothing in the way.
Maybe an after the fact attempt at sympathy but I doubt scuttling was involved operation.
If the public wants to pitch in to help let em.
Fools need all the help they can get.
Not mine though.
My dear ole Dad hit a chunk of ice in the Chesapeake years ago while bringing his Grand Banks down to Fl.
He left kinda late that year which is why he was out there.
Thing went down in a few minutes and he only had time to get his small Whaler off the davits and into the water.
He had to leave his 2 Beagles behind looking out at him through the aft cabin window as it went down.
Pretty sad he cried telling the story.
Cost Guard picked him up.
Insurance company fought him tooth and nail, said he shuttled it. Sure with all his papers and dogs on board.
They finally paid.
I suppose scuttling happens alot.
And yes for those that like to throw it around here and IMO to much, there were guns onboard.
Their life savings according to the story was no more than about 15k.
Bingo!
B.O.A.T = Break Out Another Thousand.
Wing and wing in 42 knots? Fouled lines?
You always keep a sharp knife on you just for moments like this! Or, you can become a farmer in Kansas.
I have a CG friend I served with and he owns a 28 footer and spends his time bouncing all over S and SW Fla and the Bahamas,alone.
But he knows his stuff, has lived it for 50 years.
Your post is Duffy ...
You don’t get much of a sailboat for $5,000 even if you have to invest another $5K. I’d offer a guess that that boat had no business being in the ocean.........
After being in the CG I could tell you "Stuff Happens" stories for hours. Many not so pretty and too many involve serious injury and some death. Ya got to know yer "Stuff" out there it changes in a moment
I may have grown up in a bubble, but a couple in their late 20’s, early 30’s where everything they own comes to $5000 must have made some really bad choices. This is supported by the fact it only took 2 days for them to wreck their boat.
For those that appreciate a good story.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed_check_story/
They were sailing along so to speak.
No, I think it shows how stupid people can be.
No one would believe a story like this if you pitched it in Hollywood. Unless they were gay dreamers.
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