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Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-09-2015, 20:56
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Personally, I think the book would get pretty boring after the first 150 days
Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-03-2014, 16:39
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Coops is that a veiled Monica Lewinsky joke?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 08-02-2014, 17:57
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

I thought I had seen all of Monty... but never that one.
thanks capttom... Made my day :)

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-02-2014, 14:05
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Mark.....Lucky he did not catch that strong SW current and wash up in Queensland only to be pushed off again... Talk about irony :) :)

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-02-2014, 21:26
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Too true, but then we wouldn’t have 319 posts of conjecture or spam recipes...:D:rolleyes::D
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-02-2014, 20:11
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Good Video Salty…
It shows the working boats in detail and what they normally start out with.
(Looks like fiberglass and the commercial Yamaha long boat design)

Also shows Floats/bait lines and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-02-2014, 11:55
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

I also hope he is put on Suicide Watch with the onslaught of media attention and sensational reporting that will inevitably happen.

The guy is probably in a very fragile state and I suspect that...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-02-2014, 01:50
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Yes..that might explain the boat's lack of basic emergency gear...also the fact that he was an employee and not the owner

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-02-2014, 00:45
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Good point but I would have thought that they would have an assortment of smaller hand line to catch the bait and some food fish

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 23:53
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Agreed, I cannot think of any other less travelled yet more benign stretch of Ocean that would allow a man in an open boat to survive undetected for such a long time.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 21:24
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

As I said before or as Salty figured that the Islanders cleaned out the boat





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Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 20:46
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Totally agree Mausgras.
One of the reasons I love living in the more undeveloped communities of subsistence farmers and fishermen is their resilience in the face of adversity.
I see it all the time...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 19:32
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Salty...I think you just answered many questions. Have spent a lot of time in Micronesian Atols and studied there culture. That is exactly how they would have viewed it. Possession has a loose...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 19:09
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

You are assuming they are the same boxes, instead of similar sized boxes for manual transport.

Logic dictates that the onboard fish boxes need to be very secure and I have seen the molded box...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 18:45
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

I think the Blue fish box is molded into the hull and is structurally integral.

In SE Asia you come accros fishing nomads who survive on what they catch.
It is all about having that survival...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 15:08
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

I am hoping all this will come out in a book.

Guessing that they lost most of their gear in the early storm he reported.

Later on.. swollen fingers and delirium might have lost him the knife...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2014, 10:58
Replies: 485
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Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

I wonder what happened to his fishing gear. They must have started out with some?

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-02-2014, 18:08
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Thanks again Cote Mar for summarising the reported updates.

Everything I read confirms an amazing survival story
... Mr Lanwi said the boat appeared to be old and "was in bad shape".

"It looks...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 18:35
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

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Great links Cotemar.
Have been sailing those waters since 1979 and you are often slipping into Equatorial and counter Equatorial currents.

"...Jones said the currents between Mexico and the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 17:41
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

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When asked about his ordeal he replied: “I cannot remember much about my journey. It has all gone into one thought - the sea, the sea.

Reminds me of Motessier in "The Long Way"

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 17:25
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

It will be interesting to get a full inventory of what he started with/what remained/what was most useful to him/how he managed / preserved what he caught?
So much to learn about survival from this...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 16:36
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Consder this:
The guy fishes for a living and has lots of gear onboard
At sea he can only eat his catch..no one to sell to
Offshore and drifting his boat becomes a magnet for many fish.
Fish have...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 16:12
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Good start and still plausible to me.

They were out there in the season of Gap Winds so could easily get blown offshore plus surviving is all about attitude.

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Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 15:48
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

Totally agree. There are more Sharks that need culling in this Forum than in W. Australia :)
If this was not a fisherman but instead a surviving cruiser, would you be so quick to imply cannibalism?...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-02-2014, 16:54
Replies: 485
Views: 59,160
Posted By Pelagic
Re: Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift'

All of this seems plausible to me.
He would remember Dec 25th departure.
Tough small boat offshore fisherman know how to survive on anything

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