Looks like Duke came this close to becoming survival rations
Two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Kevin Hyde, 65, and Joe Ditomasso, 76, were sailing from Cape May, New Jersey, to Marathon, Florida. But they disappeared after their Atrevida II sailboat left North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Dec. 3.
I’ve sailed since I was a kid. Raced boats very competitively in my 20’s and 30’s. Outside of a dismasting or rudder coming off, What the hell. They were only 10 miles offshore. You can still see land. Stupid people should not procreate. Buddha
As far as I can tell from the article, the boat lost it's fancy computer navigation system when it lost power - and the idiots couldn't even tell east from west without it. Wasn't there a simple compass on board? Were they so geographically ignorant to not know that you reach land from off the Atlantic coast of North America by sailing west, into the setting sun?
It's scary that someone was that dependent on electronics, because salt water eats electronics. I know guy that sailed around the world single-handed. He started with three or four separate GPS receiver/autopilots, and he made it through only because he is an EE and embedded systems programmer and could usually repair them.
Only a Jersey driver could buy a sailboat, and “run out of power” on the open ocean!
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Sailboat without power....Can you imagine that? If only there was a backup source of power.
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I’ve sailed since I was a kid. Raced boats very competitively in my 20’s and 30’s. Outside of a dismasting or rudder coming off, What the hell. They were only 10 miles offshore. You can still see land. Stupid people should not procreate.
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The article was a little short on the why, but sadly that is not surprising these days.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can tell from the article, the boat lost it's fancy computer navigation system when it lost power - and the idiots couldn't even tell east from west without it. Wasn't there a simple compass on board? Were they so geographically ignorant to not know that you reach land from off the Atlantic coast of North America by sailing west, into the setting sun?
ReplyDeleteIt's scary that someone was that dependent on electronics, because salt water eats electronics. I know guy that sailed around the world single-handed. He started with three or four separate GPS receiver/autopilots, and he made it through only because he is an EE and embedded systems programmer and could usually repair them.