Another Keel Lost; Another Capsize

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by thomm225

Exactly, so they have learned a lesson, made out with a few donations, and will be more prepared next time.......

What was the lesson learned?
Be I'll prepared and get rewarded?

[Kita]

I was out there today & didn't see anything. .I must assume it has been removed. .I was also looking at where the markers are & everything looked normal to me...

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Kita

I was out there today & didn't see anything. .I must assume it has been removed. .I was also looking at where the markers are & everything looked normal to me...

Check post #453..... photo suggests she has been salvaged... probably ashore by now.

[Kita]

Originally Posted by Uncle G

Anyone know if they had been in contact with the bridge controller to have the bridge opened? I imagine that their air draft would probably have been more than 28'.
You would think that the bridge controller could have told them that they were drifting out of the channel. Or maybe I've misinterpreted the scale of that chart and they were still a way offshore?

It's a little further out than what the bridge control would be concerned with.

[pmagistro]

Originally Posted by alaskaflyfish

My insurance is thru USAA with co-operation thru Progressive. USAA does not cover boats on the water, only boats on trailers (which mine is on its trailer half the year) located at your home. They did some trickery here to give me a better rate. I have a home owners policy(USAA) with umbrella coverage on everything above 1M that covers me under any circumstances. The comprehensive part is thru Progressive which covers natural disasters, vandalism, and uninsured boater. I did not need a survey, just an agreed on price of 16K.

Gotcha, that is an awesome deal you have going there!

[alaskaflyfish]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

What was the lesson learned?
Be I'll prepared and get rewarded?

You really don't believe they learned a hard lesson? Damn. Well here ya go..."its better to be old and negative than young and positive". But dont worry grasshopper, "when the student is ready the master will appear" -Buddha.

[alaskaflyfish]

Originally Posted by pmagistro

Gotcha, that is an awesome deal you have going there!

Yeah I know, but you gotta live in Alaska where its frozen solid 9 months of the year to get that deal.

[arsenelupiga]

this should be event monohullers should celebrate with champagne!

Based on my statistics of known mono keel losses, odds of survival have notched up from 41% to 44% as 2 out of 2 still alive

Enjoy

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by alaskaflyfish

You really don't believe they learned a hard lesson? .

The world is full of people doing the same stupid shat over and over again that never learn their lesson so what makes you think these two will be any different.
Look to the prisons at repeat offenders for example.

But I stick to my original comment, doing stupid shat with a go fund me account pays dividends, that could well be the lesson learned.

Damn. Well here ya go..."its better to be old and negative than young and positive". But dont worry grasshopper, "when the student is ready the master will appear" -Buddha

Nice rant. Were you nice and angry as you smashed that one out?

[Delancey]

[QUOTE=Uncle G;2577794]

Originally Posted by thruska

Getting back to the subject of the keel. Has anyone any definitive info as to whether it’s off or not ?

Looks as though it isn't there any longer from this pic:

Well, at least the bottom looks pretty clean....

[Jim Cate]

[QUOTE=Delancey;2578254]

Originally Posted by Uncle G

Well, at least the bottom looks pretty clean....

Well, he has had plenty of time to scrub it while she was lying on her side!

Jim

[El Pinguino]

[QUOTE=Jim Cate;2578259]

Originally Posted by Delancey

Well, he has had plenty of time to scrub it while she was lying on her side!

Jim

That reminds me of yet another true story..... early 80's, Corner Inlet, an RAN patrol boat inwards to Barry Beach.... no charts or pilots for the approach to Barry Beach back then .. just some very dodgy sticks .... getting 'talked in' by the skipper of a Tidewater rig boat .... 'you leave that stick to port... no ...sorry... starboard'..... oops - too late - HMAS XXXXX is aground on a falling tide! .... rigboat skipper then plays the 'all care no responsibility' card.

One comment heard the next day... 'why didn't he put the crew over the side to scrub her.... could have said he careened her on purpose..... '

[alaskaflyfish]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

The world is full of people doing the same stupid shat over and over again that never learn their lesson so what makes you think these two will be any different.
Look to the prisons at repeat offenders for example.

But I stick to my original comment, doing stupid shat with a go fund me account pays dividends, that could well be the lesson learned.



Nice rant. Were you nice and angry as you smashed that one out?

Actually, I nearly laughed my self silly. I'm having loads of fun cause I got you hooked and am slowly reeling you in.

[Simi 60]

Originally Posted by alaskaflyfish

Actually, I nearly laughed my self silly. I'm having loads of fun cause I got you hooked and am slowly reeling you in.

Really? And here was me thinking you are the forums new wind up internet toy

[thruska]

Originally Posted by malbert73

Hereford inlet is just north of Cape May. Yikes. None of these unjettied ocean inlets is navigable by a keelboat without the best of weather and best of local knowledge. And even then.

My engine died last summer as I was entering Atlantic City inlet in a pretty wild sea state. Luckily was windy so was able to unfurl headsail and sail in and anchor, then fix engine. Can’t imagine taking that risk in a tenuous inlet.

Yeah well he was a newbie and he had no insurance not even seatow when we first met. He had a crisis at home with the kids so I borrowed my van to his wife. My wife had just gotten out of hospital for gall bladder removal and could not sail. Both boats accruing slip fees in Atlantic Highlands Marina. We formed an alliance. We helped each other out, the crazy old man and the young man with no fear. While on the leg from Atlantic City to cape May he had mechical troubles and chose to go inside instead of calling seatow for assistance to cape May. He went on to fla and got another boat and another one after that . Then got sick of 5-7 knots and got an rv. He was knowledgeable and had a used car biz and repair shop. A good family man. We remain friends. When he sank another member of the alliance , whom we met in Manesquan, promised to not desert me. They helped me get to old new castle to meet up with my wife. From there we sailed to Oriental together, then parted. They , a family of five and two crew bound for Marathon, with their eye on Rio Dulce. They , in there 51 Roberts steel cutter , shipwrecked in a storm off Costa Rica, and lost everything, only what was on their backs. Cap was an experienced delivery captain. The boat was holed. When they returned from registering the boat had been totally pilfered. The good ending they are now on a circumnavigation with their patriarch. Lemonade from lemons.
And the world turns lol