Captainstabbin said:What a dick move keeping 2 energetic dogs trapped on a small sailboat. I know they didn't plan on a 5 month trip but even a few days is too long.
Jetset said:I agree with the above about the satellite phone. I assumed it went overboard in the same storm. The fact that they were one day out and lost their emergency communications tells me they're morons. Something goes off-road in a plan like that, you should immediately ask "what's the worst that can happen".
As others said, they didn't bother to learn the basics because the basics weren't fun. They were completely uninformed as to the worst that can happen.
I'm yet to meet a woman who really "gets" this. There's always magical thinking as they try to use the wrong size screwdriver to install something with an old pilot hole an eighth of an inch off-center, then can't understand why the screw stripped and everything's crooked...or pile leaves against a wooden shed and then can't believe it rotted through the wall. It's not even that they don't know they were doing it wrong, they just thought it would work because it has to.
ivansirko said:2600 miles in the South Pacific ocean...the only thing they did to prepare is to bring a years worth of food. How about Sailing 101? How bout a decade of practice first? Sitting on a pile of cash.....wanting to do something because reasons..."YEP LETS DO IT!"
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CynicalContrarian said:...
Then later on as we continued on our journey I asked her what she would have done had I never joined her on that particular road trip & she had been alone.
Knowing she intended to go to that one location from the outset.
Her response was that she'd simply go off, find help & "flash her boobs" if need be...
Anyway, usual story.
They'll talk a big & brash game. Claim strength & independence.
Yet at the end of the day, they're simply deluded, spoilt brat children.
Leonard D Neubache said:There's less delusion here than you think, at least in the first world where the likelihood of her being raped and killed is small (though growing thanks to de-civilisational forces).
Delusional is when she thinks she can pull that shit post-wall. This is when you see cold, hard reality claim it's dues. Have you ever been the guy that some weathered cock-hole tries to get to white-knight for them and instead of the expected eagerness you instead give a dejected sigh and a look that says "not another fucking charity case..."?
That's when their world really changes, and you see that carefree, zero-fucks-given spirit die in their eyes in realtime. :dodgy:
Kona said:OK, these bitches are lying or else they did this on purpose.
They kept the boat at Ala Wai yacht harbor. http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/...boat-survivors-recount-doomed-pacific-voyage/
If they, or the boat, were worth a shit it would say ala wai yacht CLUB instead of harbor. Ala Wai harbor has a rich culture of homosexuality and meth/heroin use. The only people that keep boats there that are worth it live out of town and don't really care about them. Everyone else lives on broken down roach pits and shits in the water. Ala Wai Yacht Harbor's public bathrooms are where you go to buy crack cocaine and get a blowjob from a tranny. My friend told me.
So my theory is these two got high as shit for a week and set sail to cook meth but things got away from them. People like this are why I have to have a shotgun/rifle/handgun cocked and safety off just to go fishing on the south shore.
It is more fishy that it took so long to find them. When (((they))) had the Japanese attack pearl harbor, the us military learned their lesson as far as defense of the islands is concerned. On top of the navy, Hawaii has a massive coast guard and homeland security presence. But here's the secret, those guys really don't have busy jobs. There isn't the shipping or other commercial traffic to justify their presence. Plus, there's massive amounts of satellite communication shit stationed he, military and private.
Therefore, if you hit an epirb within 1000 miles of hawaii, all kinds of shit starts looking for you. I was about 800 miles south recently on a boat that had a generator issue. The nav system automatically triggered one. This boat had a registered beacon, so we were able to radio and sat call that we were aok. Maybe 1.5 hours later a coast guard Gulfstream was circling and on the way back a giant c130 type plane. This is because these guys have nothing better to do.
Either way, since we are all human let's be happy they and the dogs are alive.
Regarding things that are fishy, let's also hope lesbian bed death befell upon these two before this little incident. Can you imagine eating months-unkept salty seahag pussy? Not me.
Aloha!
Kona said:If they, or the boat, were worth a shit it would say ala wai yacht CLUB instead of harbor. Ala Wai harbor has a rich culture of homosexuality and meth/heroin use. The only people that keep boats there that are worth it live out of town and don't really care about them. Everyone else lives on broken down roach pits and shits in the water. Ala Wai Yacht Harbor's public bathrooms are where you go to buy crack cocaine and get a blowjob from a tranny. My friend told me.
Huxley Badkin said:Johnnyvee said:The dog looked particularly relieved.
Lost at sea for 5 months with two dykes, yikes!
Adrift for 5 months, ran out of peanut butter within the first week...
Aurini said:Huxley Badkin said:Johnnyvee said:The dog looked particularly relieved.
Lost at sea for 5 months with two dykes, yikes!
Adrift for 5 months, ran out of peanut butter within the first week...
I was going to ask, has anybody caught a picture of their dogs from a different angle? I'm wondering if they're neutered...
U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Scott Carr told The Associated Press that their review of the incident and subsequent interviews with the survivors revealed that they had the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) aboard but never turned it on. The women said they chose not to activate the device because they never feared for their lives.
When asked if the two had the radio beacon aboard, the women told the AP on Friday they had a number of other communications devices, but they didn't mention the EPIRB.
Carr also said the Coast Guard made radio contact with a vessel that identified itself as the Sea Nymph in June near Tahiti, and the captain said they were not in distress and expected to make land the next morning. That was after the women reportedly lost their engines and sustained damage to their rigging and mast.
Goldin Boy said:This keeps getting better. Even the most mannish of dykes wants sympathy and attention
opcorn3:
Experts raise doubts about Hawaii sailors' harrowing survival tale, link here:
U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Scott Carr told The Associated Press that their review of the incident and subsequent interviews with the survivors revealed that they had the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) aboard but never turned it on. The women said they chose not to activate the device because they never feared for their lives.
When asked if the two had the radio beacon aboard, the women told the AP on Friday they had a number of other communications devices, but they didn't mention the EPIRB.
Carr also said the Coast Guard made radio contact with a vessel that identified itself as the Sea Nymph in June near Tahiti, and the captain said they were not in distress and expected to make land the next morning. That was after the women reportedly lost their engines and sustained damage to their rigging and mast.
But the National Weather Service in Honolulu said no organized storm systems were in or near Hawaii on May 3 or in the days afterward. Archived NASA satellite images confirm there were no tropical storms around Hawaii that day.
The pair said they thought about turning back, but the islands of Maui and Lanai didn't have harbors deep enough to accommodate their sailboat. At 50 feet (15 meters) long, the vessel is relatively small, and both islands have harbors that would have accommodated them. Plus, the Big Island - the southernmost island in state - has several places to dock.
"I had no idea that we were going to be in this thing for 80 solid hours," Appel said of the storm of which there is no record.
Still, they pressed on.
Days later, after parts of their mast and rigging failed, they sailed up to another small island, still with a working motor, but decided against trying to land, believing the island was mostly uninhabited with no protected waters.
"It is uninhabited. They only have habitation on the northwest corner and their reef was too shallow for us to cross in order to get into the lagoon," Appel said.
But Christmas Island, part of the island nation of Kiribati, is home to more than 2,000 people and has a port that routinely welcomes huge commercial ships.
"We could probably nurse it down to the next major island in Kiribati," Appel said. Then we'll be able to stop there and seek safe haven and get up on the mast and fix it."
The island has at least two airfields, and women had flares aboard to alert people on land. Plus, its widest point spans about 30 miles (48 kilometers), a day's hike to safety from even the most remote area.
When asked if the small island would have been a good place to land and repair their sails, Appel said no. "Kiribati, um, one whole half of the island is called shipwreck beach for a reason."
Christmas Island has a place called Bay of Wrecks on its northeast side.
So, instead of stopping for help, they say they set a new destination about 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) away and a few hundred miles beyond their original target of Tahiti. They were headed to the Cook Islands.
"We really did think we could make it to the next spot," Appel said.
C-Note said:But the National Weather Service in Honolulu said no organized storm systems were in or near Hawaii on May 3 or in the days afterward. Archived NASA satellite images confirm there were no tropical storms around Hawaii that day.
The pair said they thought about turning back, but the islands of Maui and Lanai didn't have harbors deep enough to accommodate their sailboat. At 50 feet (15 meters) long, the vessel is relatively small, and both islands have harbors that would have accommodated them. Plus, the Big Island - the southernmost island in state - has several places to dock.
"I had no idea that we were going to be in this thing for 80 solid hours," Appel said of the storm of which there is no record.
Still, they pressed on.
Days later, after parts of their mast and rigging failed, they sailed up to another small island, still with a working motor, but decided against trying to land, believing the island was mostly uninhabited with no protected waters.
"It is uninhabited. They only have habitation on the northwest corner and their reef was too shallow for us to cross in order to get into the lagoon," Appel said.
But Christmas Island, part of the island nation of Kiribati, is home to more than 2,000 people and has a port that routinely welcomes huge commercial ships.
"We could probably nurse it down to the next major island in Kiribati," Appel said. Then we'll be able to stop there and seek safe haven and get up on the mast and fix it."
The island has at least two airfields, and women had flares aboard to alert people on land. Plus, its widest point spans about 30 miles (48 kilometers), a day's hike to safety from even the most remote area.
When asked if the small island would have been a good place to land and repair their sails, Appel said no. "Kiribati, um, one whole half of the island is called shipwreck beach for a reason."
Christmas Island has a place called Bay of Wrecks on its northeast side.
So, instead of stopping for help, they say they set a new destination about 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) away and a few hundred miles beyond their original target of Tahiti. They were headed to the Cook Islands.
"We really did think we could make it to the next spot," Appel said.
Looks like they were cooking meth or running drugs and/or contraband.
The women told the AP that they had a float plan sharing their course and other details with friends and relatives. But in an interview with the Coast Guard, the women denied filing such a plan.
Furthermore, the women initially said the crew from a Taiwanese fishing vessel — from which they were eventually towed — was friendly. But they have since backtracked to say they were worried the crew was going to harm them. They also said the fishing boat caused major damage to their sailboat by backing into it.
“I also believe that they knew they were damaging the boat,” Appel told the AP. “And if we couldn’t get additional help, that boat would sink, and they would get … two girls to do whatever they wanted to.”
The AP reached the captain of the fishing vessel, who identified himself as Mr. Chen. He said his boat — the Fong Chun No. 66 — received a mayday radio call but didn’t understand it.
They then saw someone waving a white object from a boat about a nautical mile away, he told the AP. The women aboard asked to use the vessel’s satellite phone and for a tow to Midway Island.
Mr. Chen’s ship towed the sailboat overnight. But come morning, the women wanted to stop the towing and call in a naval vessel. Despite offering to bring them onto the fishing vessel and provide food or water, they women refused any extra help.
Mr. Joe Kerr said:And then there is this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Doba
His name is Aleksander Doba, he was was the first person to paddle a 7 meter sea kayak across the Atlantic ocean, a voyage that spanned 5394 kilometers.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...sses-atlantic-in-kayak-for-3rd-time-at-age-70
Born 9 September 1946.