There is a movie starring Robert Redford, he is on a boat in the middle
of the ocean and the movie starts with him waking up in the morning
after his boat hit a lost cargo container and tears a hole in the side.
It was a really good movie.
On 10/28/2017 10:01 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
Apparently lots of big floatie stuff out there though, you
occasionally hear of a boat running into a lost container that is low
in the water. Out in the open ocean that would be a very small risk,
but it still happens. Not sure even having a watch at night could
prevent that.
Or you could get stove in by a whale.
--FT
On 10/27/17 7:30 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote:
No rocks out there, average depth is a couple miles. A few atolls,
location well known.
Autosailing devices keep the boat on a selected heading, the wind is
very constant in direction if not intensity on average, at least when
a significant distance from the equator (which is why they are called
"trade winds" -- blow the same direction months at a time.
The simple ones are just a small sail rigged up to the rudder to keep
the sail fluttering -- as the boat drifts off the selected course
relative to the wind, the small sail pulls the tiller or wheel over
and moves the rudder.
They are not perfect, but that trip from Hawaii to Tahiti is a very,
very common deep sea sailing trip, also to a couple atolls in the
same areas.
And morons take off on the trip all the time without the ability to
actually navigate or find out where they are after a storm.....
Peter
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