Couple sells off everything to buy sailboat and live at sea, sinks on second day

The boat I use now I could still row if I had to if the motor quit and shallow water is not a problem . Good enough for me. I would rather fish .
 
"The boat sank," Walsh told WFTS, "but our dreams didn't sink with the boat."

Maybe not but what little common sense they had, did. If their dog had any sense it would bolt.
 
angelatc said:
Well, if I thought I could get a sailboat like this for $10,000 I'd be tempted to start taking sailing lessons.



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For 10k you could get a reasonably nice live aboard sailboat..(28-32)

much less if you like work. Salvageable boats are available after every storm.
anything from clean up to major overhaul. at bargain prices.
 
PursuePeace said:
NOPE. Pay for your own mistakes.
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They're almost halfway to their goal in two days. They're going to blow through their goal and score big.

RPFrs are just soooooo nice. Their travails are getting thoroughly mocked by the crew at the Sailing Anarchy forums.

XNN
 
XNavyNuke said:
They're almost halfway to their goal in two days. They're going to blow through their goal and score big.

RPFrs are just soooooo nice. Their travails are getting thoroughly mocked by the crew at the Sailing Anarchy forums.

XNN
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Funny how little patience those who spend years learning a skill have with those who blithely assume, 'Oh, any idiot can do that, even me...'

PursuePeace said:
https://www.gofundme.com/new-sailing-life
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Oh, they set up an 'I'm an idiot, send me money' account. Good move.
 
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With GPS, can it be that difficult to avoid shallow waters?
 
Danke said:
With GPS, can it be that difficult to avoid shallow waters?
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Well, that's assuming that they even had one.

But let's assume they did.

Looking at that inlet with the shoals on each side, I can imagine there would be a strong, perhaps very strong, north to south set, maybe as much as a couple of knots.

Even with GPS and a chart plotter, holding that line, in an underpowered sailboat on auxiliary engine power, in what may have been rough waters, perhaps in the dark, with an unskilled skipper at the helm...would be like expecting good results on a final approach with 30 knots of crosswind on a short landing with a guy who had not even soloed yet.
 
Anti Federalist said:
Not as easy at it looks folks.Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2http://www.ajc.com/news/couple-sells-everything-for-sailboat-sinks-day/Z3v7HaZ0uFYXvBKMyEFWTM/Ryan W. Miller USA TODAY 8:34 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.Within two days, their dream became a nautical nightmare.On their way to Key West, Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh's voyage abruptly ended in John’s Pass off Madeira Beach, Fla., when their 28-foot sailboat struck something underwater Wednesday night. "We hit something in about 8 or 9 feet of water and it stopped the boat completely," Broadwell told TV station WFTS. The couple who abandoned their workaday lives to buy a sailboat for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure instead lost almost everything when it sank on day two of their journey off Florida. They escaped injury when the 28-foot boat hit something and capsized Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico near Madeira Beach.Water flooded into the cabin, starting to sink their fantasy life. The couple grabbed social security cards, cash, IDs and their pug Remy as they called for rescue. A ship arrived about an hour later, the Tampa Bay Times reported, but the water was too shallow for it to approach. So the couple and Remy jumped in, leaving their dream vessel behind to capsize."Everything I've worked for, everything I've owned since I was a child, I brought with me. It's just floating away and there's nothing I can do," Walsh told WFTS. Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000. It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported. Now, it could cost thousands to remove Lagniappe from the channel. Even with no savings and no place to live, the couple said they're not giving up on sailing again one day."The boat sank," Walsh told WFTS, "but our dreams didn't sink with the boat."
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Anti Federalist said:
Well, that's assuming that they even had one.

But let's assume they did.

Looking at that inlet with the shoals on each side, I can imagine there would be a strong, perhaps very strong, north to south set, maybe as much as a couple of knots.

Even with GPS and a chart plotter, holding that line, in an underpowered sailboat on auxiliary engine power, in what may have been rough waters, perhaps in the dark, with an unskilled skipper at the helm...would be like expecting good results on a final approach with 30 knots of crosswind on a short landing with a guy who had not even soloed yet.
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Ya, don’t know where they were and what kind of equipment. But with my limited boat experience, I know when I’m over my head I’d stay in deeper waters until either help arrives or go somewhere else.


But I’m the type of person that won’t do anything like that without extensive training. Fly a helicopter, no fricked way, unless I was military trained or weathly enough to get many hours of training well beyond the minimum.
 
Water flooded into the cabin, starting to sink their fantasy life. The couple grabbed social security cards
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"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."
 
Danke said:
But I’m the type of person that won’t do anything like that without extensive training. Fly a helicopter, no fricked way, unless I was military trained or weathly enough to get many hours of training well beyond the minimum.
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I learned sail and rudder on a sail board,, in shark infested waters. and it was great fun..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Key

I would fly anything.. or try. if put in the seat. and expect fun.
 
Republicanguy said:
LOL yeah got to their head, and it all just went wrong.
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It didn't just go wrong, socialist. They screwed it up. Those rocks were there long before these two fools were born.

Just as you socialists make the mistake of thinking you're smarter than everyone else, and can run their lives for them even though you have no grasp of their details at all, they thought they were smarter than everyone else, and could navigate without a stick of training. Just as you liberals demand to be allowed to pursue your own ideas despite generations of experience which obviously knows more than you do, they were just convinced their own ideas would serve them just as well as millennia of sailing that they arrogantly refused to learn from.

There's a lesson in this for you. But I sincerely doubt you'll allow yourself to see it.
 
They just got into their boat, without even knowing how to use it?

Why isn't that illegal yet? There should be required trainings or at least something
 
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