[krazzz]

Watch bungling sailor being rescued five miles into 3,000 trip... because of seasickness - Mirror Online

Wow, I really have no words...

A bag of biscuits, beans, hot dogs, and a street map of Southampton in a boat he bought hours earlier that wasn't properly rigged and was taking on water.

 

[Slayer]

Sounds more like someone with mental health issues.

 

[krazzz]

Sounds more like someone with mental health issues.

That is the most likely explanation. Either that or extreme desperation.

 

[christian.hess]

maybe he was fleeing a warrant! ajajajaja

 

[chuck53]

Sounds more like someone with mental health issues.

I don't wish mental health issues on anyone, but in this case, I hope he does....that no one in their right mind would attempt what he was trying to do.

 

[Boasun]

Wasn't there a guy who tried to sail from San Franciso, on a boat made from milk cartons?

It is to my understanding that he didn't get very far either.

Maybe we should have a thread on the "dumb & dumber sailors"??

 

[newhaul]

That has to be some kind of record only 2995 miles short of his goal wonder how long before he tries again.

 

[Capt Len]

I can name a couple of well founded 'expeditions of circumnavigation' out of Victoria that didn't make Flattery. Even after all the media lead up and hoopla at the send off ,Duh!! Lots of reasons for not succeeding ,mental illness is only one. Self delusion works too. Unrealistic dreaming is on the list. Ring a bell?

 

[wristwister]

A bag of biscuits, beans, hot dogs, and a street map of Southampton in a boat he bought hours earlier that wasn't properly rigged and was taking on water.

... but no beer? Heck, I would have bailed after 5 miles too!

 

[christian.hess]

beer? you need some hard licor to go "mapless" !!!

 

[newhaul]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/27/ed/e8/27ede8181ca5ea0138ff78e55573c25c.jpg. that's explains it

 

[SloopJonB]

IMO, we have to stop interfering with Darwin's principles this way. Now that idiot is back on dry land he might BREED.

 

[scratchee]

That is one badass rescue unit. Both boat and crew. Hat's off.

 

[Rockter]

Mentally ill, I am afraid.
Mental illness to that degree is horrible.
I have seen it once, and the poor soul just cannot think straight nor correlate danger and they don't want help, they say.
Sometimes you can do more with kind words than all the medicines available to us.
The law in the UK is such that they can "section" (under the Mental health Act) the man for his own safety.
It is good law, applied carefully.

 

[Andrew65]

Sounds more like someone with mental health issues.[/QUOTE

I agree. Luckily there aren't any kind of those people here on Sailnet.

 

[SloopJonB]

They're all on Anarchy. (or PRWG)

 

[MarcOneSailing]

This isn’t just the “normal” case of underestimating the ocean, but of people having no ide what they are doing.

 

[TQA]

Zombie thread alert.

 

[SeaStar58]

Zombie thread alert.

4 years ago and 5 miles away is almost like "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as far as forums are concerned.

Wonder how he's doing today?

 

[Capt Len]

Got involved in politics.