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Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 21:48
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Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

disgraceful,posted by eric

https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f129/what-a-mess-zenamaran-106946.html
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 21:43
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

IN Regard to erics motive i think you should read this,then it is probably a good point to close a chapter in cruisers forum history...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 18:59
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

sorry i am going to have to blow a hole in that assumption as well.
unfortunatly,a lie begets a lie,note the dates and the time line.

from face book comment by charlottes sister via sat phone...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 17:36
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

here,last paragraph,
together with pictures of a very healthy looking baby,and someone obviously handsteering

Rebel Heart - Charlotte's Blog - Overwhelmed, Shocked,Â*Saddened...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 15:37
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

brings this to mind,about the same time as they were leaving

'Shipwreck British woman saved by Google Earth’: There’s something fishy about story of Gemma Sheridan rescued from desert island -...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 15:28
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

i would like to think it was cf members who donated 18,000 dollars in 4 days,but having an overview outside of the forum,i think this is not the case.

it is all about,clicks
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 14:53
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Prosaic means ordinary or dull. Most of us lead a prosaic everyday life, sometimes interrupted by some drama or crisis.

ergo

Münchausen syndrome by proxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 12:09
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

i know that myself and any of my children will develop a serious rash ,fever, vomiting,diareah,within hours of taking amoxycillin,lasting 24 hours or so,with no ill effects afterwards if...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 11:27
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

from face book comment by charlottes sister

Sariah Kay English What I was told about Lyra was that she had a rash all over, a fever, vomiting and diarrhea. She had been on antibiotic for five days...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 10:33
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

that quote was directly from charlottes sister,via sat phone from the boat,which she posted on face book,before the media blew things out of proportion.

she also said they were going to tag the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 05:59
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

due to the nature of east- west downwind passages,and having sails goosewinged,your solar panel only gets direct sunlight for maybe 3 hours a day,leaving you with a serious shortage of power if...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 04:43
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

seems like there are a lot of mexican tax payers in the usa......:confused:
as there are korean,taiwanese,russian,chinese etc.
can we cut the jingoistic rhetoric.

the rescue services are in the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-04-2014, 04:23
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

When those same long liners have troubles off our shore do you think they call the Taiwanese Air Force to save them? Ha

generally they have a mother ship/factory ship in the area that they are...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-04-2014, 15:51
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

+1 to the above,plus i think now we are in no danger of the media running away with this and performing a crucifiction.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-04-2014, 15:14
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

faced with the prospect of 2000 miles of handsteering,only 100 liters of fuel left to charge the bateries to run the electric auto pilot.......game over
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-04-2014, 15:01
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

seems very likely,given that they had no problem sailing to windward to redendevous with vandergrift,and it was the sister that reported the steering problem,plus we have a photo of a pj hand...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 15-04-2014, 14:44
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

that would have been most unfortunate,on a downwind passage in 5 ft waves.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 13:51
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

here is a very good article from my old friend Darrell Nicholson of practical sailor,whom we cruised the pacific with many moons ago.
he raises some very good points


Treating Child Illness at...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 12:57
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

have at it guys
,i think the media has pretty much lost interest now
,so no danger of fanning the flames,
the RH's seem to be recovering nicely from their ordeal
,and charlotte is posting...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 11:19
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's contribution to the cruising community

rubbish,i have 2 female friends,both single handers,both with boats over 42 feet,who single hand regularly across oceans,both have done it with kids that could not crawl yet.ie under 18 months.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 09:30
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

no i pretty sure there was a troll on the boat
Forum: General Sailing Forum 14-04-2014, 08:55
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

maybe they had a troll on the boat,trolls have been know to come up with some pretty far fetched stories to gain attention................:confused:

here i googled it for you
In Internet slang, a...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-04-2014, 16:32
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

Searching for E........hiding meth on boats...What is this forum coming to:whistling:

thanks for all the great posts over the last few days on this and the other thread dave:thumb:
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 19:02
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's Contribution to the Cruising Community

definitly,but without trolls muddying the water.


here is a recent thread regarding children,that has good points regarding those setting out on a cruising life with children...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-04-2014, 18:56
Replies: 607
Views: 71,765
Posted By atoll
Re: Rebel Heart's contribution to the cruising community

as far as i know it is a forum rule when quoting to include a link,also to put it in inverted commas.

apart from that if you check his profile page you will see a pattern of spurious quotes meant...
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