Cruising Sailors Forum Archive

Messages In This Thread

• Manifestly Unsafe Voyage...?
  • no way!
    • Howard suspects he was treated differantly because he is blind
      • Insurance????????.
      • Mabe SSB -- but not VHF?
  • A couple of things
  • Dude would have been better off on a
    • I agree. Nothing against the Flicka, but there's no comparison.
      • Tom....Tom...Tom....
        • Phil, Phil, Phil
  • So now we have another vessel adrift..
    • I think there was an effort made later to go salvage it
    • Have you ever heard of someone hitting an abandoned boat, Ron.
  • Whatever the skipper's argument, sounds like things weren't going too stellar
  • I don't know, but looking at that picture I would have pull him off
    • +1
    • Drogue
  • Or at least established ONE friend on shore as the designated whistle blower.
    • Exactly...
      • I'm sure there is more
      • the morale is
      • How many CG personnel does it take to rescue 1 guy off a Flicka 20?
  • What ever happen to free will
    • I think it went to some 3rd world country
      • But if he can't see and hits you, what then? It's one thing to do it; but another to expect someone to ignore it.
  • He appears to be legally blind because he's blind in one eye
    • Another link pre-disaster
  • FWIW, I think it was a good call by the CG...
    • One thing certainly not very much in his favor...
    • Have you ever gotten a halyard wrap? ... or been surprised by something that "just appeared" beyond your head-sail?
  • If someone said, "I want to be the first blind person to drive accross the country in a car", is that manifestly unsafe?
    • if he was on a boat sailing 65 knots
    • Yeah, if only he'd kept his mouth shut...
      • If they came upon him in that inflatable and he didn't see them...
    • Not the issue here.
  • not justified.
    • Should the CG even have gone out there