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Stinkpotter
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Initially Posted - 01/18/2014 :  09:37:20  Show Profile
An interesting read (and video) for a dull winter day... This one is a rescue some 300 miles out, with fuel stops for the chopper on a Navy ship both ways. The Coasties never cease to impress.

http://www.soundingsonline.com/dispatches/291583-video-helicopter-evacuation

Guess there's a brand-new catamaran out there somewhere... Sounds like the design was better quality than the build.
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PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage before going over to the Dark Side (2007-2025); now boatless for the first time since 1970 (on a Sunfish).
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Response Posted - 01/18/2014 :  17:46:09  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
WOW!

Maybe I'm missing something.
I did not read about any shakedown cruise.

The boat was being delivered in January from
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, bound for St. John, USVI, at about 1430 hours on Wednesday, January 8.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I have been out there when bad weather is due (and surely they knew it was due!) it get's ugly.

Then there is the boat. Leaking windows, Parting sheets, and Arlyn will probably choke when he sees the engineering on those rudder posts (perhaps engineering is the wrong word)

Stepping down off the soap box, but still shaking my head!

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Response Posted - 01/19/2014 :  10:33:41  Show Profile
They seemed to have expected the weather and assumed the boat would handle it... That's pretty much to be expected when you're hundreds of miles out in the N. Atlantic in January--weather comes and goes, and there you are. You're not really going to avoid it. (Although apparently they thought they had a weather window to at least get them below maybe 35N.)

They probably did their "shake-down" by sailing around the Statue of Liberty a few times, bucking some ferry wakes and such... Take for example the jib sheet they apparently knew was rubbing on something (?) WTF?? You're going off-shore like that??

The instant I read the part where the boat was slammed backward by the (apparent) rogue wave while the helm was "locked hard to port", I wondered about the rudders. From that point, it amazed me they didn't recognize what had happened right away--not that it would have changed much, except maybe to cause them to be in communication with the USCG a little earlier.

Funny thing about catamarans and "lying a-hull"--they don't <i>roll</i> if hit by a huge wave--they just <i>turtle</i>. I think I'd want to be on a sea anchor in that situation.

Plenty to speculate on here...

Here's a question: Where were they shooting the video of the chopper from? The C-130? Another chopper? I'm guessing the former, although it seems too stationary.
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