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Initially Posted - 08/28/2011 :  06:22:06  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
[url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44271560/displaymode/1247?beginSlide=32/from/toolbar"]msnbc[/url]

Paul
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PO C250WB 2005 Sail # 841.


Moved up to C34 Eximius

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Response Posted - 08/28/2011 :  06:39:35  Show Profile
No sympathy here.
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Response Posted - 08/28/2011 :  08:41:32  Show Profile
Bags are probably filled with money.
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Hmmm, in picture #42, it appears that the furling foresail was not removed. Maybe they didn't hear the hurricane forecast.
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Response Posted - 08/28/2011 :  10:29:21  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 OJ</i>
<br />Hmmm, in picture #42, it appears that the furling foresail was not removed. Maybe they didn't hear the hurricane forecast.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">They were trying to run from the storm, which was moving at 15-17 knots behind them... Real geniuses.
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Response Posted - 08/28/2011 :  10:57:33  Show Profile
I read somewhere they anchored near the jetties or a breakwater. Not sure if they had engine problems or not. Defintely dumba&^%'s.
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Response Posted - 08/29/2011 :  08:18:52  Show Profile
Must have changed the slide show, can't tell what you guys are talking about.
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Response Posted - 08/29/2011 :  12:23:51  Show Profile
http://www.localtvusa.com/south-local-news/portsmouth-norfolk-wavy-tv-nbc/2011/08/beached-sailboat/

I think it was this one.
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Response Posted - 08/29/2011 :  14:45:47  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 PCP777</i>
<br />Must have changed the slide show, can't tell what you guys are talking about.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">yes, apparently - at this writing it is pix #78
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Response Posted - 10/02/2011 :  17:09:39  Show Profile
Additional info (video) on this boat - very sad . . .

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/norfolk/Woman-rescued-from-boat-speaks-
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