Merged Threads: HMS Bounty

[speakeasy]

Far Out! Excellent.

[Captain Jeffry]

Originally Posted by DeepFrz

From that link that was posted above. The article was updated after 9 pm.

It's not 9pm on the east coast yet! ...I'm waiting until this is verified.

Current time: 1755 hrs West Coast

[DeepFrz]

Another update:

UPDATED 9:52 p.m.
Bounty crew member Claudene Christian died in a Elizabeth City, N.C., hospital after being found by the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday evening.

[cheoah]

Confused here. I can't see any evidence that Christian survived. What a dramatic event to punctuate this storm - the tall ship Bounty going down off Cape Hatteras, of all places.

Terrible thing, still scratching my head

[saw77]

Originally Posted by Captain Jeffry

It's not 9pm on the east coast yet! ...I'm waiting until this is verified.

Current time: 1755 hrs West Coast

The report is coming from Halifax, they're an hour ahead of us on the East Coast of the US.

[zeehag]

and i am in mexico...where no one gets info and no one has time on a wrist.....i learned about claudene christian when i go thom efrom imigracion. that was around 2-4 pm here. i read it on bounty's facebook page. they got it from claudene's mommy. ye think i heard it from the delayed newsprint i dont read?? nope. i do no tread paper news nor listen on radio nor watch the cycloptic brain numbing boob toob. so which will be faster, sensationalist paper news, or claudene's mommy???? i would bet on mom.
RIP, claudene. smooth sailing.

[Captain Jeffry]

Originally Posted by zeehag

and i am in mexico...where no one gets info and no one has time on a wrist.....i learned about claudene christian when i go thom efrom imigracion. that was around 2-4 pm here. i read it on bounty's facebook page. they got it from claudene's mommy. ye think i heard it from the delayed newsprint i dont read?? nope. i do no tread paper news nor listen on radio nor watch the cycloptic brain numbing boob toob. so which will be faster, sensationalist paper news, or claudene's mommy???? i would bet on mom.
RIP, claudene. smooth sailing.

nice~ rip

[deckofficer]

Zeehag has always been a resourceful old salt. Sorry about the "old" part. lol

[GaryMayo]

Originally Posted by btrayfors

Imbeciles!

We don't need to know anything else: Hurricane Sandy has been touted for many days, and is an immensely large storm. This is not news. This storm is and has always been described as an immense dangerous storm. Category 1 doesn't mean a thing.

The Navy sent it's ships to sea from Norfolk on Friday.

ANYONE who attempts a passage off Hatteras in the face of an oncoming hurricane is an IDIOT.

I hope the Captain survives, but only so he and his backers can be PROSECUTED for gross incompetence.

Bill

Seems a little soon to wrath. Time for that once the conclusion is known.

[Captain Jeffry]

Originally Posted by deckofficer

Zeehag has always been a resourceful old salt. Sorry about the "old" part. lol

I like the 'cycloptic boobtube'. (smile needed)

EVERY national network feed from right coast has it's newspeople out in waders where the water has risen. Some in the surf. Wating for a guy treading water.. rediculous!

[deckofficer]

Originally Posted by Captain Jeffry

I like the 'cycloptic boobtube'. (smile needed)

EVERY national network feed from right coast has it's newspeople out in waders where the water has risen. Some in the surf. Wating for a guy treading water.. rediculous!

I got a kick out of CBS's Scott Pelley, the evening anchor, doing the network broadcast from the effected area and he loses power and a stand-in anchor at the studio had to run the extended coverage.

[Captain Jeffry]

Just heard stock market exchange wooden floor is 3 feet under water. Gonna get worse

[Nicholson58]

Originally Posted by seahag

Hmm. Did anyone else notice there was a crew mwember named Christian on board? I sense a mutiny

News follow up says she was related.

We saw the ship in Green Bay in Aug 2010. Their sailmaker mended our jib for us and I had coffee with several of the crew. I recognized several of them steppin off the CG helicopter. SO sorry to hear of the loss of life. YOutube clips show the vessel toughing out bigger blows than this one. So far sounds like they lost the diesel and probably power so no pumps. At one point they were shipping two feet of water per hour and had 10 feet in the bilge. Sounds like a lot went wrong at once. I heard that it might be floating with mast tops showing so perhaps there is a possibility to salvage.

Here are photos I took in Green Bay at the Tall Ships festival and under sail off the Muskegon Channel entry a week later. I noticed as I approched in the dinghy with our sail that the rudder appeared to be a bit small for the sive of the ship. But what do I know.

[GaryMayo]

RIP CC. Best wishes for the safe return of the captain. I would hope his cold weather gear has a beacon making it easier to spot at night.

Our local fire chief lost his daughter to an automobile accident with a large truck. She pulled out in front of him with barely enough time to spare, but her car stalled. He had no time to stop.

Sounds like the Bounty may have tried I move like the fire chief's daughter. In their case, as they tried to swing around the storm, mechanical problems intervieined and they were overtaken.

[zeehag]

is done.
i hope captain is found.
i believe he wont be alive when found--he was in survival suit--0400-what time now--gawds know--is prolly gone unless some one else was out in the storm and found him. no one besides sar goes out in that kind of storm.
i do hope he gave the corporate folks a bad time about this sailing to a schedule in a hurrycame situation....

RIP bounty

RIP claudene christian..


deckofficer--as long as you realize you arent that much younger than am i......and i am only oldish on the outside....