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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Unless the goal was to get a ton of press and a GoFundMe Page.
Interestingly enough, David was the founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf
*In 1980, he and his son, Daniel, earned a major award for sailing a nine-foot dinghy from Florida to the Bahamas. And six years later, they became the first Americans ever to sail around Cape Horn in a vessel less than 30 feet long.Their trips to the southern tip of South America and elsewhere inspired them to write an account of their world-wide sailing adventures in 1995 titled My Old Man and the Sea.*
Basically, the book is a fine account of father-son bonding and their perils at sea.
In regards to this unfortunate couple, I would say, that I have spent my whole life on the water; and am pretty familiar with boating, both power and sail. I would no more take on this voyage than going to the moon. They needed more experience and the right electronics.
And obviously, simple *101* experience reading charts would have helped.
You can't fix stupid.
Anyone who is *into* powerboating would laugh themselves silly at the *Blowboater’s* demise.
A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.
Today it’s called “GoFundMe”.
Recall the couple last year who “had problems” and were floating adrift.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-navy-ship-rescue-japan-20171030-story.html
Key parts of women’s tale of survival at sea contradicted
Yep! Welcome to sailing 101! Avoiding running aground and happy sailing.
This is the luckiest couple I have read about in a long time.
Think what might have happened if they made it out into the real ocean. People die out there. And, with their level of experience that is more than just a possibility.
$5,000 seed money.
This story is worldwide
https://nypost.com/2018/02/10/couples-life-savings-go-down-with-sunken-sailboat/
A ditzy Colorado couple whose vessel went underwater just a day after they embarked on what they hoped would be a carefree life sailing the seas begged for help Saturday on a GoFundMe page.
This campaign is trending!
$910 of $10,000 goal
Raised by 28 people in 2 days
And DONE!
>>I don’t think you can buy a decent 28 ft. Ocean Going sailboat for 10 grand.
Maybe at John F. Kerry or Leonardo DiCaprio’s yard sale.
-PJ
In a world of “tiny house”, millennials look at “tiny boats” as sustainable living.
Apparently not since this one’s sunk.
Time to buy a utralite plane!
Life savings and all they could get was 28 footer?
I would not live aboard on less than. 37
I’d prefer a 44 and up flush deck sloop
An old 41 Morgan OI was broad beam roomy but a hog at sea
Any Bob Perry like a Tayana 37 or a Hood Bristol 38
Bigger budget then a Hinckley or Hylas or Baltic
Double enter canoe stern Lafitte 44 or a Hinckley Bermuda 40
Like pistol cartridges number 40 and up
I know that pass well......the main one tween Clearwater and Pass a Grille
Pass a Grille was my home outer marker in the old working days long ago now
When I could see Egmont Key buoy and then the Don Cesar I knew I was almost home on Tierra Verde...thank you lord
South Saint Pete beach had few high rises then...the holiday inn and the Don was about it
Early 80s
Moved down to Boca Grande later ...Stump Pass....much trickier
These folks were noobs
A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.
You're right. I believe Buffett wrote about a cowboy from Colorado who went to sea in one of his novel's.
Wait no, I just googled it and the book is "A Salty Piece of Land", but the State is Wyoming.
He leaves Lost Boys to take a few days off after this experience, and drunkenly falls asleep on the beach, where he is robbed in his sleep. When he wakes, a 140-foot schooner, the Lucretia, is anchored nearby. When the captain, feisty 101-year-old Cleopatra Highbourne, comes ashore, they strike up a friendship immediately and Tully is offered a job as part of the crew. Initially, he turns down this offer, but after run-ins with two bounty hunters from Wyoming, where he has outstanding warrants, he finds himself on her ship just the same. It is at that point that she takes him to Cayo Loco, the salty piece of land referred to in the book's title, which is a small mythical island that is home to an old-fashioned lighthouse. Cleopatra puts Tully to work fixing up the ruin, as she intends the island to be her final resting place.Somebody call Jimmy Buffett.
I would love to hear Travis McGees comment on this. Maybe he will use it in some way in a future novel?
I’m not a boater but have worked on them, big steel hulled tour boats so i know engines, electrical and hydraulics.
I would buy a boat, seriously, but i would never call it a dreams goal, more like a hobby. Like converting a sailboat to a full electric drive.
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