Taking young children on a trip like that on a 36 foot boat? Idiots! Have to be Obama voters.
The parents taking a toddler on a trip like that????
They should be charged with child endangerment.
USAF Pararescue is there..... The little girl will live. PJ’s ....my little brother is a PJ....
“The California Air National Guard dispatched four rescuers, who parachuted into the water and reached the disabled vessel. The team was able to stabilize the girl and pointed the sailboat, which does not have steering or communication abilities, toward Mexico, the 129th Rescue Wing said in a statement.”
With of the posters here , good thing they weren’t around during the western migration in the late 1800’s , most of the westerns states would have never been settled.
If they are liberals they’ll sue the Navy for taking too long.
It seems that many of the rugged individuals who profess not raising sissies and trying to protect everyone from everything, do not believe what the profess to preach.
Doctor gave them the go-ahead and they tried to be as prepared as possible - per the article, sometimes sickness happens. What a nation of cowering wimps we are becoming.
The child had had salmonells poisoning but they got an OK an left on trip.
And the article says the sail boat does not have steering or communication ability. Why would you sail around the world w/o either of those.
You can not fix stupid
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Two unbelievably self-absorbed parents endanger their pre-school children who are too young to assist with ship's duties and too young remember the experience.
Before the family left, Lyra had salmonella poisoning, but doctors cleared her to travel after she was healthy again ...
Eric Kaufman is a Coast Guard-licensed captain ...”
When her sister first mentioned plans to sail with two young children, English recalled, "I thought it was nuts."
This last means the guy hand a six-pack license - can take 6 passengers for hire. The easiest license to get - a little sea time (sailing around your local bay will do), pass some open book navigation questions, etc., and presto instant captain.
Taking one’s two small children on such a lengthy open ocean voyage in a 36 foot tupperware sail boat, is the height of idiocy, let alone taking a child who is recuperating from salmonella poisoning (which may say something about the sanitary and food safety conditions in the home). It wasn’t “nuts” as the sister said, it was criminal.
Many of these sailboat types sail around in their local environment for a while, then decide to go somewhere in the open ocean because they consider themselves ‘proficient’ sailors ... way back when, their was a couple like this one who, after sailing around Puget Sound, WA, decided to take the family and sail to Hawaii. After a short stop at Neah Bay (at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca), they were never heard of again ...
Because they consider themselves not only accomplished sailors, but also look on gas power as something disdainful, stinky, and a polluter of the sacred environment, these day sailors frequently neglect the engine, which, in their view, is not really needed, but is too much trouble to remove.
I would not be surprised to learn they reported their initial position as southwest of the Golden Gate bridge ...
People go sailing in small boats on long passages with children all the time.
But it doesn’t seem this couple was very well prepared in spite of the article stating they are experienced sailors.
If a sailboat is afloat and has working sails it isn’t “crippled”.
Yet, they are only 900 miles out on a 30,000 mile circumnavigation and they have no steering, no power for communications, engine can’t be used, water leaking into the boat and the child is sick.
The real problem seems to be that they rushed their departure too soon after the child’s bout with salmonella and they don’t seem to have the ability to cope with equipment breakdowns.
Couples with this level of stupidity should not be allowed to breed.
They are probably from Rio Linda.
A few years ago, we had a 33 footer in Ventura Harbor. I wasn’t comfortable enough with it’s size to even go to Catalina. At best, these parents were naïve; at worst they were stupid.
Vandegrift was built at Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington, launched on 15 October 1982, and commissioned on 24 November 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vandegrift_(FFG-48)
Ronald Reagan legacy ship.
But, but it was their parents dream and they were always careful.
There now that that is settled we can start planning our next sailing trip like our friends.
Makes sense to me, can’t deny the parents their dream.
A 36 footer hundreds of miles off shore? What could go wrong?