Thanks for sharing, Randy. As we are seeking our offshore boat, there are lots of lessons to be learned from this story, but the opening sentences would have had enough red flags to send me running from this boat!
"Calypso’s owner and captain is a 75-year old man who’d never been offshore. He found passage crew on findacrew.net, and they too had never been offshore (and in two cases had little sailing experience)." No offshore experience in a boat not really designed for offshore? What were they thinking? I'm glad there were no serious injuries and hope those involved will learn from the experience, as in my limited experience, it reads like a lesson in what not to do! -- Shawn Wright shawngwri...@gmail.com S/V Callisto, 1974 C&C 35 https://www.facebook.com/SVCallisto On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 2:30 PM Randy Stafford via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Listers, > > Here’s an overdue report on this situation. Basically a tale of warning > about what can go wrong offshore, with potentially very serious > consequences. > > By coincidence a few weeks ago I came into contact on Facebook with one of > Calypso’s crew, a retired pediatrician. We subsequently spoke on the > phone, and she documented her experience on her Facebook timeline, which > I’ll quote below. > > > >
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