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3rd November 2017, 12:06 AM | #281 |
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3rd November 2017, 01:21 AM | #283 |
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I've never sailed, but it seems to me that if I set out on a voyage like this (with the money they apparently had) I would have multiple sat phones, radios, and sat connections. I'm not a genius, but I see how big the Pacific Ocean is.
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3rd November 2017, 01:26 AM | #284 |
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3rd November 2017, 05:19 AM | #286 |
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So Im assuming that the dogs just crap wherever, and people usually just toss it overboard.
Gross. |
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3rd November 2017, 07:35 AM | #288 |
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Or just the vague concept of "outside." Dogs probably just crapped on the deck and they either pushed it overboard or just let the normal movement of the ship and sea spray on the deck take care of it.
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3rd November 2017, 08:21 AM | #289 |
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Okay I think we covered the dog poop topic already!
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3rd November 2017, 04:34 PM | #295 |
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These two were city girls. I suspect they made it to Tahiti on time, then island hopped westward until they ran out of marinas to dock at. Then turned north for Japan. Everything fine- until their five months of granola ran low.
Anybody know where the last convenience store was to their 900 miles s.e. of Japan? eta: Gee, I looked at a map of the pacific islands. Looks like once you make it to Hawaii, you can island hop all over that ocean. I wonder what yachtsmen call a trip around the pacific, back to California? Circum-pacific? |
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3rd November 2017, 08:48 PM | #296 |
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Can we rely on anything we read?
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4th November 2017, 06:04 AM | #300 |
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4th November 2017, 07:22 AM | #302 |
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I don't know if this helps:
If the guy is 1.8m (6ft) tall, the yacht is about (1.8x7.2x3.3= ) 43 feet long at the deck line. He'd have to be less than 5 feet tall for it to be 35 feet. |
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4th November 2017, 04:30 PM | #312 |
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Note 4 people on the boat. Two must be US sailors. Whoever is up the mast may be attaching a radar reflector, to prevent the boat becoming a hazard to navigation. And possibly a transponder for relocating it for salvage? Which may be up to her insurance company? (eta, that is a sailor up the mast, The two women are on deck, one fore, other aft)
And, no they don't use unsinkable boats for target practice. Know why? And I bet transponders are cheaper than bullets. A couple hundred 50 cal at $5 each? And an insurance company would like to inspect, to prevent insurance fraud... Probably re-reimburse the Navy for the transponder too. Lots of conjecture there, like the rest of this thread. But, make sense? |
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4th November 2017, 06:00 PM | #313 |
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I'm not really confident that this story will "play out". We may be at the end of the story right now. For it to be otherwise, it might require a confession or some other party to come forward and say "we know what really happened and it is XYZ".
I have a question: Could they have ported at some place(s) along the way and done that anonymously or casually and escape easy recognition? Could they stop and buy food or do whatever and then just continue onwards and not be reported like "we have official record of this boat porting at Kiribati"? I'm asking because I don't know how records are kept at ports, if at all. |
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If their plan was for their story to be taken at face value and to spin that off into some sort of book/movie/celebrity deal they might just decide to cut their losses and hope the whole thing just goes away.
Legally speaking I wonder how "Lying about a survival experience" could really be prosecuted. |
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4th November 2017, 07:31 PM | #316 |
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Job title is Harbormaster. There are also Dockmasters at marinas. Also known as Berth Control Officers.
And possibly customs officials. And credit card records. Yachting is a small world. I expect, in a few weeks*), for someone to come forward with "Oh yeah, I remember the two gals in (name a port) and their 45' center helm___(brand of boat). *witnesses might be out actually sailing, won't hear about it until they make land fall. |
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It's funny. I found this article also: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...review-sailors Towards the bottom they have this advice.
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5th November 2017, 01:21 PM | #319 |
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About the dogs - they are in remarkably good shape. Good muscle tone. Pasta and rice eh? Exercise?
About the women - remarkably good shape (well...), meaning, they appear to have lost no weight, and in fact are quite overweight, at least one of them is. I've seen photos of people who were rescued at sea and they looked like people that had been rescued at sea. Where did they get all the water to cook all the rice and pasta, and water themselves and the dogs, and maintain hygeine? How big was their desalinizer of whatever they had? Was it electric? I hope so. No obvious malnutrition, their faces are healthy and pudgy. No sunburn or obvious exposure. These women only knew each other for 3 days. I think they parked the boat somewhere, had some fun and ate a whole lot of fish, and decided to spin a yarn. Ninety miles their boat breaks, yet they continue on for a couple thousand miles instead of going back? Pretty much nothing about this story makes sense. They're hiding something. Maybe it's an affair or a drug run but it's something. |
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4,000 nm from Tahiti to where they were picked up. That's 40 days of sailing, and two months of hunting sea shells on the beaches.
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