Sea Nymph Spotted Adrift

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by jkindredpdx

I doubt that since it would encourage invasive species wherever it finally goes aground...

And when it goes down oil and fuel will contaminate everything. That is purely in jest as is this whole fantasy.

[Boatyarddog]

Originally Posted by goat

Someone should helicopter Rimas aboard. He's looking for a good driftworthy boat.

Kinda mean thing to say, but maybe true.
What his status, these days.
You know?
Cheers
SV Cloud Duster

[Boatyarddog]

Originally Posted by goat

Someone should helicopter Rimas aboard. He's looking for a good driftworthy boat.

Kinda mean thing to say, Probably True.
What his status, these days.
You know?
Cheers
SV Cloud Duster

[CatNewBee]

Poor starving tiger sharks... no bites any longer on board.

[goat]

Originally Posted by Boatyarddog

Kinda mean thing to say, Probably True.
What his status, these days.[emoji3]
You know?
Cheers
SV Cloud Duster

Though his latest boat was abandoned, Rimas is alive and well. I think he's still waiting to be flown back to the states.

If you've got a few (a lot) of spare hours. You can follow this thread;

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/ind...-san-juan-24/&

^^^^If you think I'm not nice, you'll love these clowns. They've written him off for dead several times and are finally in awe of the distance he's traveled and his seamanship skills.

You can probably find him on face book too.

goat

[Boatyarddog]

I know Rimas personally, talked to him about his adventure.
He ditched 2 San Juans and Mimsy was not an unseaworthy vessel.
However, Rimas is not a DIY kind of person, if he was he'd be done with this dream already.
His biggest flaw, I believe.
Cause he's got Kahoneys for sure. Many more sea miles than most sailors.
Adrift, for months is not my kind of sailing.
I bet you see him, eventually.
I believe he's on Guam, American territory, not wealthy though.
I believe his donors are few do to his style.
Thanks for the follow up. I only said Mean cause I like to support boaters, even those with bad planning.
Cheers,
SV Cloud Duster

[er9]

Originally Posted by CatNewBee

Well, the wind generator is still running, solar is up too.
No problems at all I guess...

Would be nice if she circumnavigates as the first vessel
without crew and steering to show them how it works ...

OMG! this is awesome. The first unmanned sailboat to circumnavigate on its own. brilliant!

[sailorcherry]

Anyone else notice the boom came off?

It's dangling off the portside partially submerged. I also noticed the friggin spreaders look JUST fine after all this time. That was my issue and I kept bugging her to answer me about it too when I was taking to Jen on the SA thread. I subjected myself to those 1.5+hrs of the interview that I think got removed too. So after listening to it I kept asking why she didn't jury rig the spreader (her reasoning on not sailing, or sailing full canvas). It's been a couple of months now and I have tried to delete it from my tiny brain to make space for somewhat more important info, haaa, but I think she blamed that on the Rigger using the wrong pin? She was threatening to sue him (she didn't have insurance) blah blah, poor me crap.

Since 2012 I have been diligently cleaning up plastic pollution, in the water and shoreside and talk about it whenever I can to grow awareness. It's situations like the sea nymph that pose a catch 22, scuttle it and add to this issue or put the safety of others/vessels first since it's a navigational hazard...

[Mr B]

Well there is plenty of power to run pumps, Solar array on it,
It cant be damaged too much if its still afloat,
Its still pretty high out of the water,
Submersible pumps will still be ok even after this long under the water,
If it was in a bad way, unseaworthy, It would have sunk already,
Or be a lot lower in the water,
Some thing is not quite right here,

[Uncle Bob]

Originally Posted by Mr B

Well there is plenty of power to run pumps, Solar array on it,
It cant be damaged too much if its still afloat,
Its still pretty high out of the water,
Submersible pumps will still be ok even after this long under the water,
If it was in a bad way, unseaworthy, It would have sunk already,
Or be a lot lower in the water,
Some thing is not quite right here,

Maate, something has not been quite right from the beginning.

[CatNewBee]

I guess the issues were fixed momentarily when the dingbats left the boat. It was not the vessels fault, nor the dogs, it was the seamanship of the crew.

[jmmondeau]

Rimas is proof that anything can be sailed anywhere. They should have traded the dog for him.

[Skipper Kenny]

Originally Posted by knotstogo

Volvo Ocean Race's "Turn The Tide On Plastic."

I hope I am not the only one to see the irony of an FRP boat being named as such.

[gonesail]

seems like few hours with a manual bilge pump could get her going before she sinks. rigging still intact .. put up some sails. maybe not worth it now.

[hellosailor]

There's minimal salvage value in a boat where someone has added 9000# of custom fiberglass to the hull. In the custom car business, the blunt term for that is a butcher job. While the rig, substantially the mast and boom, would have some value, I expect those would still be way less than the cost of putting a slave labor salvage crew on board to get the boat to a harbor large enough to need salvage parts.