David, You're not being a jerk, just asking what we were all wondering. The boat seemed sound, with solar and wind, sails intact and engine running.
Personally, I would not do the trip solo, and certainly not on a 35 footer, but that is a whole different question. Joel <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 5:10 AM David Risch via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > OK. I’ll be the jerk here. > > > > I am still confused as to why he did not know whether BMD would or would > not take him before he disembarked. And why he just did not sail back to > port when he found out he could not enter. > > > > Being rescued because your tired? > > > > If I was the owner of that very-large-expensive-ship-to-run-and-stop I > would be scratching my head… > > > > *From:* cenelson via CnC-List <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:41 PM > *To:* Randal Stafford <[email protected]>; Stus-List < > [email protected]> > *Cc:* cenelson <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Stus-List Re: Rescue at sea. > > > > Thank you—knowing that, it is amazing that he was able to stand on the > rescue ship per the video!! > > > Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Faol-news-email-weather-video%2Fid646100661&data=04%7C01%7C%7C19845ed85d2e465e5fed08d93cd9062b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637607725068436832%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=cjAKpfW6pqxlMS8fhXLln9SMM3RUZKEKAwqJvS9QBJw%3D&reserved=0> > > On Thursday, July 1, 2021, 2:19 PM, Randal Stafford < > [email protected]> wrote: > > At 2:20 in the video a voice says the captain is very tired and has been > at sea for at least 7 days. The document at 17:19 says Mr. Steeby left > Virginia 5 June, arrived Bermuda 11 June and was refused entry. It says > after three days of drifting in bad weather he was lost. So that would > have been 14 June. I agree that from what could be seen on the video the > boat looked operative. Maybe he sought help out of exhaustion. > > > > I arrived in Bermuda on June 16th to crew the delivery of Joel Aronson’s > Hylas 44 Atlantis back to the US June 17-22. Joel had sailed Atlantis to > Bermuda a couple weeks before that with four aboard. For months in advance > Joel and the delivery crew had been monitoring and discussing Bermuda’s > COVID-related entry requirements (by sea and air). Yes, it was a stringent > process that required fast turnaround of pre-departure PCR tests and travel > authorization applications. Given the weather we encountered on several > days of our passage (with a crew of five, split into watches), I imagine it > would have been extremely exhausting for Mr. Steeby to have been sailing > solo for nine or more days. > > > > Best Regards, > > Randy Stafford > > S/V Grenadine > > C&C 30-1 #79 > > Ken Caryl, CO > > > > On Jul 1, 2021, at 11:52 AM, Charlie Nelson via CnC-List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I could not determine from the video what went wrong that the skipper > required rescue--I could see exhaust from Jenny on the video and the sails > looked fine--although the spreaders may have been damaged while she was > tied up to the BIG ship. > > > > Anyone know the "...rest of the story..."? > > > > Charlie Nelson > > Water Phantom > > 1995 C&C XL/kcb > > -----Original Message----- > From: John McCrea via CnC-List <[email protected]> > To: 'Stus-List' <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 1:30 pm > Subject: Stus-List Re: Rescue at sea. > > Wow, I was just out there 3 days after that. I did the return leg of the > Bermuda 1-2. Flex in on 6/14 from Boston. It was a process getting the > Travel Authorization. Submitting you’re your online application with > evidence of a vacine card and PCR test two days before I left and then > another before you are allowed to leave the airport. Then quarantine in > your room until they email you. (I must be honest me and another friend > that was returning on another boat had a nice rental apartment and we had > another Skipper drop-off beer and steaks, thanks to Tom Kent on Kent Racing > a Class 40). > > > > They had just opened up inside dining the week before we got there and the > whole island is still very much where we were back a few months ago. But > still my favorite place and my 5th 1-2. Hoping to go on my boat someday > but she will need some big upgrades! I was on a very nicely equipped Tartan > 35 but one thing it did not have was a second autopilot and yup the > inevitable happened and we steered close to 700 miles by hand! 8 days later > and finally feel normal again. > > > > *From:* Randal Stafford via CnC-List <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 1, 2021 12:37 PM > *To:* Stus-List <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Randal Stafford <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Stus-List Re: Rescue at sea. > > > > So I assume S/V Jenny is adrift somewhere in the North Atlantic? It was > tough to see her hull and spreaders banging into that tanker. I wonder > what will become of the boat - how long it can stay afloat, where it will > end up. > > > > I guess eventually the guy would have run out of water and provisions. > > > > Cheers, > > Randy > > > > On Jun 30, 2021, at 12:46 PM, Joel Aronson via CnC-List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > We left Virginia 3 days after this guy! > > > > Bermuda requires a covid travel authorization and test, but I'm shocked > they refused entry. However, they are Covid-paranoid, as almost every case > they have seen has been from a foreign traveler. > > I know another sailor who was permitted entry to make repairs on his way > to Puerto Rico this winter. > > > > Wonder what the rest of the story is. > > > > Joel > > > > > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avg.com%2Femail-signature%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dlink%26utm_campaign%3Dsig-email%26utm_content%3Dwebmail&data=04%7C01%7C%7C19845ed85d2e465e5fed08d93cd9062b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637607725068446830%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=i9rzNqz4cyh4MHNyIag4GFSL3T%2BLFBmaIjM1fJ7ngdc%3D&reserved=0> > > Virus-free. www.avg.com > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avg.com%2Femail-signature%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dlink%26utm_campaign%3Dsig-email%26utm_content%3Dwebmail&data=04%7C01%7C%7C19845ed85d2e465e5fed08d93cd9062b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637607725068446830%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=i9rzNqz4cyh4MHNyIag4GFSL3T%2BLFBmaIjM1fJ7ngdc%3D&reserved=0> > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:38 PM Steve Thomas via CnC-List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Wow. > > Refused entry to the harbour. > > Not the Bermuda I remember. > > Steve Thomas > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:20 PM > Subject: Stus-List Rescue at sea. > > I’m posting this thread because there may those amongst the list that will > find this interesting. > > > > This post is somewhat C&C related because the subject of the video > upgraded his boat near mine. He just did his upgrades with much more > alacrity. > > > > Kim is an acquaintance of mine, lives in the same town and has attended > more than one of our annual Sock Burning Parties. I’ve assisted him with > some of his projects. Prior to his setting sail for Bermuda, I worked along > with another very experience offshore sailor (in the yard repainting his > Valiant 42 with triple spreader carbon rig) to get him prepped and sorted > away. The Valiant owner leant Kim his life raft. Having raced to Bermuda in > the past Kim was keen for any insights that I could impart. I told him to > stay away from the Swizzle Inn rum swizzles and take the round-abouts in a > clock-wise direction... > > > > I don’t have any insights or knowledge of events other than what is > portrayed in the video and I’m not going to speculate. > > > > This voyage was a long-term dream of Kim’s. His boat is a mid-to-late 80’s > Jeanneau, around 35 feet. > > > > Rescue at Sea > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fapp%3Ddesktop%26v%3D0wAk8Cmjtl0&data=04%7C01%7C%7C19845ed85d2e465e5fed08d93cd9062b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637607725068456816%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ZggUXx8e6Lg25ZB312BNQkXz%2By%2FIu1m%2F6BU9G9W2kgE%3D&reserved=0> > > > > Regards, > > Dave Godwin > 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin > 1998 Mast & Mallet Thomas Point 34 - Katana > Reedville, VA > > > > > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. 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