Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-07-01 Thread John Conklin via CnC-List
Me too appreciate the link! John Conklin On Jul 1, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Joel Aronson via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Marek Thanks. I’ve downloaded both Joel On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:12 AM Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: In no way I am

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-07-01 Thread Joel Aronson via CnC-List
Marek Thanks. I’ve downloaded both Joel On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:12 AM Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > In no way I am trying to judge this or provide Sunday quarterbacking. And > even if I have some off-shore experience, even in some reasonably stormy > weather,

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-07-01 Thread Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List
In no way I am trying to judge this or provide Sunday quarterbacking. And even if I have some off-shore experience, even in some reasonably stormy weather, nothing like what was described in that post. But I would like to suggest to anyone who is planning to venture on the really open seas a

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-30 Thread David via CnC-List
and below decks. Get Outlook for Android From: CnC-List on behalf of David Miles via CnC-List Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 9:41:11 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: David Miles Subject: Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this? I have no idea

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-29 Thread David Miles via CnC-List
I have no idea on their boat, but I just saw an ocean going boat that was from the 70's with a bad crack through the 1.5" hatch. Any wave would have split this one. On June 29, 2018 18:09:21 Randy Stafford via CnC-List wrote: I’m not judging, but trying to learn. In the account, they

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-29 Thread Randy Stafford via CnC-List
I’m not judging, but trying to learn. In the account, they were sailing down steep 30-foot waves under bare poles. The woman awoke to a hard hit by a wave, was suddenly on the ceiling, and tons of water came in through the companionway hatch. The man at the helm assessed that they had been

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-29 Thread Edward Levert via CnC-List
I too have no appreciable offshore experience but it sounds a little bit of get home itis. 17 years cruising and these were the worse sea conditions experienced? No storm sails, sea anchor or warps? Did not heave to? Content to move at 5kts downwind in huge seas? Make for an alternate safe harbor

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-29 Thread David Knecht via CnC-List
Very powerful and emotional story. Never having been offshore, I can only imagine what it would be like to be in that situation. It did not sound like the boat was in danger of sinking. What options did they realistically have? Is there a way to ride out a situation like that? I wonder

Re: Stus-List Amazing USCG rescue - Anybody else see this?

2018-06-29 Thread John Christopher via CnC-List
Yeah, amazing read... 150 miles left in their journey to port. Feel bad for the couple and hats off to the USCG... from Canada /John > On Jun 29, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Josh Muckley wrote: > > https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1739506892791962=11980054663