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piseas
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Initially Posted - 06/27/2008 :  12:36:45  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Check out this [url="http://www.pacificcoastboating.com/vshare/view/98/terrifying-but-amazing-rescue-/"]rescue[/url], its pretty intense.
Steve A
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  13:07:31  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by piseas</i>
<br />...its pretty intense. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Sure is... Some great flying. But I don't think either of the boats or the chopper are USCG. It looked like local police and some sort of rescue squad. I've never seen USCG boats or choppers like that.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  14:03:47  Show Profile
It said "Wales Surf Rescue" on the side of the helicopter. Can only assume the U.K. I remember seeing this once before. Not sure where.
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  14:22:22  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
Gotta love that sailboat self righting properties! I think I recognized Paul in there?
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  14:29:44  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Did a google on Wales Surf Rescue.
Nearest thing I could find is at http://www.rescuehelicopter.com.au/operations/helicopters/

same logo, but different colors. Don't know date the video was taken although it was posted just a couple of days ago.

Probably is Austrailia, New South Wales.

Paul
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piseas
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  15:50:57  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Steve Blackburn</i>
<br />Gotta love that sailboat self righting properties! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I wonder if he had an electric bilge pump. Maybe several!
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  16:26:29  Show Profile
...especially with the companionway wide open.
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  16:44:43  Show Profile
A buddy of mine is a native of Ireland, he used to race there out of some yacht club and had a sloop, I believe he said it was 28 feet long. He was out in the North Sea once with a friend and got caught in a storm, then fetched up on the lee shore of a small island, where the boat was pummeled on the rocks, broke up and sank. They managed to climb out and make it to shore, where some locals took them in and put them up for about a week until the sea calmed down enough to catch a ferry back home.

When I see videos like this or hear stories like my friend's I feel my life has been very sheltered.
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piseas
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  17:10:46  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Stardog</i>
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When I see videos like this or hear stories like my friend's I feel my life has been very sheltered.
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Don't know about you but I don't mind that kind of sheltering!
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i>
<br />...especially with the companionway wide open.
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Dave, ya, it didn't look like he took in too much water. I wonder if any forum member would want to try that out. I will be glad to monitor.
Seriously, I was wondering why he didn't use main to sail. Maybe just petrified with daughter on board.
Steve A
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/27/2008 :  18:21:02  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by piseas</i>
<br />...I was wondering why he didn't use main to sail...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Watch his sail--it looks like he's essentially becalmed. It's not unlikely for huge swells from distant storms to become breakers along a shore or over a reef, even with little or no local wind. It looks like the waves are driving him more than whatever wind there is.
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redviking
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Response Posted - 06/28/2008 :  10:54:25  Show Profile
The interesting point of all of this is that a mono hull will stay afloat and will right itself. Also, i will bet anything that he put the hatch boards in. He was simply towed in while the rescue boat folks had to be rescued. A lot of folks think that they are in trouble - and they probably are - when actually the boat will by design take care of them.

sten
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