On 07/02/2021 9:18 AM Joel Aronson via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: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
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 5:10 AM David Risch via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - StuOK. 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…
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Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:41 PM
To: Randal Stafford <randal.staff...@icloud.com>; Stus-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
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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 iOSOn Thursday, July 1, 2021, 2:19 PM, Randal Stafford <randal.staff...@icloud.com> 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 <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 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
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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 <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2021 12:37 PM
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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 <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 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
Virus-free. www.avg.com
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:38 PM Steve Thomas via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Wow.
Refused entry to the harbour.
Not the Bermuda I remember.
Steve Thomas
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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.
Regards,
Dave Godwin
1982 C&C 37 - Ronin
1998 Mast & Mallet Thomas Point 34 - Katana
Reedville, VA
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