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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 01/23/2017 :  18:24:32  Show Profile
I saw this boat anchored and unattended in open water last week just a couple of miles from marinas and a sheltered anchorage. I don't know the story. Perhaps it was a life threatening medical emergency. Hopefully it wasn't to get an insurance settlement or just plain dumb.

https://www.facebook.com/100000533146062/videos/1519605404733883/

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle

Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/23/2017 :  22:02:49  Show Profile
I keep seeing something or someone off her port side... Sometimes when everything else is letting you down, the anchor is the last resort. Hope this ending isn't tragic.
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/24/2017 :  17:30:10  Show Profile
It just goes to show you Szyt Happens ... A small unmanned boat adrift in the surf or later up on the beach can indicate any number of things: most of which are a PITA but not a catastrophe or tragedy. There's a website for nautical mishaps. I'll see whether I can find it again. Just in case what was the date? Jan 21-22?
Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/24/2017 :  17:43:05  Show Profile
Checked the USCG website and found the following about an abandon ship in Sand Key (FL west coast)

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Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

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Response Posted - 01/24/2017 :  19:48:26  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Voyager

Checked the USCG website and found the following about an abandon ship in Sand Key (FL west coast)

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They towed that one in--had to be another incident.
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/25/2017 :  10:30:54  Show Profile
This one was anchored for days, at least. A photo made the evening news last night, but there was no story being television "journalism". Port St. Joe, 01/22. I'll take a stroll down the beach before I start rigging Pearl and see if there is anything new.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/25/2017 :  17:36:47  Show Profile
SEA TOW got it turned last night but couldn't pull it out with their small boat. They were waiting for high tide and bringing the big boat when I walked by. I think, not sure, that they were pulling it off as a salvage action because they didn't know any more about why it was anchored there.



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1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
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islander
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Response Posted - 01/25/2017 :  18:26:18  Show Profile
That is a mystery. Looks like a pretty nice O'Day. Nothing striped off it and the reg.# are there so I'm guessing it wasn't abandoned to get rid of it. How did it look up close?
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
Sailing out of Glen Cove,L.I Sound


Edited by - islander on 01/25/2017 18:30:33
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DavidBuoy
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Response Posted - 01/26/2017 :  05:39:41  Show Profile
That is strange. Has the bimini up and wind sock. Looks like it's been in use. Unlike this one that came off it's mooring in the strong winds we had a couple days ago.

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islander
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Response Posted - 01/26/2017 :  07:57:41  Show Profile
Ray, I noticed your lack of posting lately. I hope your OK.
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
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Response Posted - 01/26/2017 :  09:16:44  Show Profile
<<Ray, I noticed your lack of posting lately. I hope your OK. >>

whoops... deleted my post before I saw your reply RE: not getting to the boat due to illness ..

Yepper I'm fine, thank you for asking.. Just a little drug reaction that kept me out of the sun for a while. Just found out my primary issue is not systemic today, which is wonderful news...

Gotta Love those Docs... ( that part is satire )

Oh and the other reason I've dropped out was the company converted over to Electronic medial records and we can't use the company computers for any personal work, So I had to buy another laptop.... But enough about me...
Ray in Atlanta, Ga.
"Lee Key" '84 Catalina 25
Standard Rig / Fin Keel
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/26/2017 :  20:45:21  Show Profile
The boat's afloat. Anchored in the same spot so I guess it wasn't a salvage action. I guess its water tight, but a lot of scuffing. It has solar panels on top of the bimini and mast steps and appears to be equipped for living aboard and cruising. It does, however, need some TLC. Its missing a starboard sheet winch (The base is still there.) and a front panel for the fuel locker.
Some of the rigging is damaged and the cockpit just looks scruffy. The "clear" plastic washboard is intact but to badly crazed to see inside. I've seen some very abused O'Days returned to life, they're tough little boats.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
Edited by - Dave5041 on 01/26/2017 20:47:16
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/28/2017 :  08:15:40  Show Profile
Wow, so the boat was rescued off the beach and the owners fixed the anchor shackles and returned it to the mooring. I couldn't see a lot in the FB pix, but is that part of the beach wide open to the ocean or gulf? Is it inside of a bay or behind a breakwall? Living aboard in unprotected waters has to be hellacious! The boat looked to be rocking in the waves in the video.
Bruce Ross
Passage ~ SR-FK ~ C25 #5032

Port Captain — Milford, CT
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/28/2017 :  14:04:42  Show Profile
Nobody was aboard at the time. I thought there would be somebody here over the weekend since its back on the hook, but nobody yet. The beach is open to the gulf, on an anchor with a nylon rode and nobody checking chafe. The rode parted near the bow. I'd like to know what anchor they had to hold in that storm until the rode parted.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/29/2017 :  19:53:14  Show Profile
The final chapter is complete. The boat has moved on to safer water. And a good thing since the wind has been blowing out of the southwest at 25 all day.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
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