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Old 07-12-2017, 05:31   #1
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Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava-Sailing Anarchy podcast

Not trying to beat this dead horse but Sailing Anarchy did a podcast with them that was pretty good. They did a good job of trying to get the real story out of Jennifer and better answer some of the absurd comments/statements these girls made. Give it a listen if you have the interest and time. Best interview with them so far.

https://sailinganarchy.com/2017/12/0...irls-one-mess/

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Thanks for the link flee! I listened to the whole thing, and I have no attention span. I won't give an opinion on the interview, but it plays out the way I imagined it would.

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I agree. For me it removed the ideas of it being a scam or having ulterior motives. It really just appears to be a case of bad planning, lack of experience and bad judgment. Plus a little crazy mixed in... All right a lot of crazy...

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Proves you can be fairly smart and still be nutty. Kudos on her cojones, if one is still allowed to say that.
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I agree. For me it removed the ideas of it being a scam or having ulterior motives. It really just appears to be a case of bad planning, lack of experience and bad judgment. Plus a little crazy mixed in... All right a lot of crazy...r
Good summary. There's 2:28:45 of my life I'll never get back!

One thing I'd like to add, and it hit me pretty early before I started getting into what a character that Jennifer is, is that she's taken almost no responsibility for anything. The rigging guy's fault. The fishermen's fault. The Navy's fault. The media's fault. They misunderstood her when she called on the radio. The list goes on.

When pressed about some of the more absurd aspects of her story, she resisted even the interviewer's patient explanations as to why she might have been reasonably mistaken. She'd tentatively agree only when she had no other choice. Then later, she'd jump back to it and try to re-assert some doubt about the reasonable explanation she'd just agreed to. She just couldn't seem to bring herself to fully admit she was wrong. About anything.

I do feel I understand her better now. I can't say I dislike her. But I also can't say she's the kind of person I'd like to spend much time with, on a whole bunch of different levels. But the world needs all kinds of people. No doubt she's filling a necessary niche in the fabric of our society. I still hope no-one contributes to her GoFundMe page, but overall I wish her well.
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Thanks for the horrible warning.
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I think I'd rather just watch cartoons and avoid trying to understand the revelance of dingbats
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Re: Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava-Sailing Anarchy podcast

Just when we thought it had died a natural internet death . Are you sure its not a zombie thread?
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Good summary. There's 2:28:45 of my life I'll never get back!

One thing I'd like to add, and it hit me pretty early before I started getting into what a character that Jennifer is, is that she's taken almost no responsibility for anything. The rigging guy's fault. The fishermen's fault. The Navy's fault. The media's fault. They misunderstood her when she called on the radio. The list goes on.

When pressed about some of the more absurd aspects of her story, she resisted even the interviewer's patient explanations as to why she might have been reasonably mistaken. She'd tentatively agree only when she had no other choice. Then later, she'd jump back to it and try to re-assert some doubt about the reasonable explanation she'd just agreed to. She just couldn't seem to bring herself to fully admit she was wrong. About anything.

I do feel I understand her better now. I can't say I dislike her. But I also can't say she's the kind of person I'd like to spend much time with, on a whole bunch of different levels. But the world needs all kinds of people. No doubt she's filling a necessary niche in the fabric of our society. I still hope no-one contributes to her GoFundMe page, but overall I wish her well.
Listened to part couldn't get through it.....
Yes she does fill a niche.........one Darwin tried really hard to remove.....
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Listened to part couldn't get through it.....
Yes she does fill a niche.........one Darwin tried really hard to remove.....
Well...he defined the process at least...these two somehow managed not to make themselves eligible for a Darwin Award because they could, Darwin forbid, still contribute to the gene pool.
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Re: Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava-Sailing Anarchy podcast

I listened to it, or rather I attempted to listen to it. She has some obvious cognitive issue (allegedly due to a motorcycle accident during her racing days) that makes for an almost complete inability to not wander off mid-sentence into an entirely different subject. She's never going to be able to produce a coherent narrative about what happened. She's simply not capable of it. That makes this a dead letter story as far as I'm concerned with the only conclusion to be drawn from it being that she was ill prepared for the entire undertaking.
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Unlike most people posting, I have actually met Ms Appel in Ala Wai Harbor in Honolulu.

Here is what I wrote in my blog at the time...

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The boat was being single handed by an athletic woman maybe in her mid forties. Nothing too surprising yet, except she was, as our British friends might say, totally starkers. Yep. Not even a pair of sandals on her feet. Without a stitch on she tied up her boat and settled it into its spot on the dock.

That was her usual mode of dress in the marina...

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Re: Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava-Sailing Anarchy podcast

" She just couldn't seem to bring herself to fully admit she was wrong. About anything." Capt. Tom


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But the world needs all kinds of people. No doubt she's filling a necessary niche in the fabric of our society.
No doubt, really? Possibly as an example of how not to conduct oneself, if we need that.
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