11-24-2008
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Telstar 28
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Location: New England
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This is what amazes me:
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According to published reports, on Saturday, Nov. 8, the USS Gonzalez, a Navy missile destroyer based in Norfolk, Va., responded to a distress call from the boat, adrift in 10-foot seas off the coast of Virginia.
Those reports said the boat’s owner told them that the vessel had lost steering and had been drifting for four days prior to the Gonzalez’s arrival.
The Gonzalez sent an inflatable boat with several crew members to assist the Gypsy Dane, and after spending several hours with the vessel, the sailors were able to repair the steering, lost because of a line wrapped around the rudder, as well as several other mechanical problems. The Gypsy Dane was then inspected by the Coast Guard and cleared to continue its voyage.
Exactly one week later, the boat and its owner washed up in Avon.
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He had four days to repair or jury rig the steering and cut the rope from the prop and didn't do it. Got bailed out of that problem by the Gonzalez's crew...and then ends up driving the boat up onto a beach in a National Park by the sounds of the article. Hopefully, this guy isn't going to get another boat and waste even more of our tax dollars.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
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