HI->Tahiti Dingbats found after 5 months

[Exile]

Originally Posted by picklesandjesse

Done a few singlehanded passages, the longest was only 28 days but I was a very different person at the end of that one. Set an alarm to get up every 15 minutes to check for shipping but eventually went to sleep and slept past the alarm. Slept for 30 hours and woke up the next day but didn't know it !! Found out when I turned the radio on and found a distant radio station. Very funny really. After awhile I just had a lookout every few hours or when my mind thought there might be a ship out there. Never saw one, not surprising really.

"ONLY 28 days?!" That's quite an accomplishment, sir!

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by picklesandjesse

Done a few singlehanded passages, the longest was only 28 days but I was a very different person at the end of that one. Set an alarm to get up every 15 minutes to check for shipping but eventually went to sleep and slept past the alarm. Slept for 30 hours and woke up the next day but didn't know it !! Found out when I turned the radio on and found a distant radio station. Very funny really. After awhile I just had a lookout every few hours or when my mind thought there might be a ship out there. Never saw one, not surprising really.

30 hours! Wow, and I thought I had set the record at 10 hours once.. not even close!
Speaking of demons, a friend just gave me a book entitled "Off the Deep End, A History of Madness at Sea."
Is he trying to tell me something?

[JPA Cate]

You mean you think it's an objectivity test? [Teehee].

A.

[double u]

Originally Posted by lateral

Damn right.
It seems there is a general pervasiveness of entitlement these days.
To sympathy, free money, services, fame etc.
But really the universe still doesn't give a @#$%.

One thing to learn for intrepid beginners to sh'd cruising, are you mentally up for it? Or will your demons come out of the closet?

too damn right!!!...print this in large letters, frame it & hang it on the wall for everybody to see!

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Don C L

30 hours! Wow, and I thought I had set the record at 10 hours once.. not even close!
Speaking of demons, a friend just gave me a book entitled "Off the Deep End, A History of Madness at Sea."
Is he trying to tell me something?

he is trying to politely tell you the fact that everyone else already knows.

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by newhaul

he is trying to politely tell you the fact that everyone else already knows.

Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Don C L

Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!

I know I'm stark raving mad . But heck the first part is admitting it.
You however are still in denial.

[Cherod]

Originally Posted by Don C L

Huh? I am the sane one, it is all of YOU who are not!

It is good that some people still have enough time on their hands to be bothered dragging up such classic golden oldies , thank you .

[Souzag818]

Originally Posted by dwedeking2

According to the NBC report a spreader failed, which if they were inexperienced/not smart and couldn't figure out a way to rig a replacement would prevent them from sailing.

They say they were "attacked" by sharks which seems odd in a boat that size.

From the article: ""I went downstairs with the boys and we basically laid huddled on the floor and I told them not to bark because the sharks could hear us breathing. They could smell us," Appel said."

I don't think it's fishy (as in a scam or something contrived), but Hawai'i collects kooks so I'm not surprised that is where they are from.

I'm offended I was born and raised in Hawaii, and I'm not a kook...I think...

[Cpt Pat]

Originally Posted by dwedeking2
According to the NBC report a spreader failed, which if they were inexperienced/not smart and couldn't figure out a way to rig a replacement would prevent them from sailing.


Yeah. What's the polite word? Balderdash!

Their spreaders look just fine. All of their standing rigging looks fine. Maybe they had trouble with their running rigging, like, which "rope" to pull on to hoist the mainsail.


See for yourself:

https://media.gannett-cdn.com/299061...6708234001.mp4

Keep in mind, these lady "sailors" had an EPIRB that they never switched on. Early rescue would ruin the story... and all the attention.

[CaptTom]

Whenever I need some reassurance that the human race might have a future after all, I check back at their GoFundMe page.

Yup. Still at $40. There is hope.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by Souzag818

I'm offended I was born and raised in Hawaii, and I'm not a kook...I think...

Well in defense of the post, he didn't say everyone in Hawaii is a kook, they just seem to attract more than their share of kooks.

Not unlike parts of FL (where i live), CA and a few other locations. Maybe it's something about the warm climate. I even had some very nice, normal friends that moved to CA that turned a bit kooky. Maybe it was driving across the continental divide, lack of oxygen or something.

[john61ct]

Cold climates encourage serious productivity, Darwin was pretty ruthless.

The tropics, not so much. . .