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An observation
In Response To: Latest info - SPOT tracker shows them ... ()
It looks like the SPOT was firing a position off every 70 min. The distance between the last two points is slightly shorter than previous ones. Either the boat speed had slowed on this last leg (that would seem an unlikely coincidence) or they were on the rocks about 10 minuets before it fired.
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- Boat lost, 3 dead in Newport to Enseneda race
- More from AP (as distributed by the Washington Post) - Aegian
- Aegian was a Hunter 37
- One report says from the debris, "looks like the boat went through a blender"
- I wonder if there was a 'notice to mariners' posted for the race?
- Maybe an explosion?
- Speculation is frieghter...
- The most comprehensive report I have seen thus far...
- Latest info - SPOT tracker shows them ...
- How could running into an island "shred" a boat such?
- The Spot Slogan: "Live to Tell About It" doesn't ring true.
- So being a Hunter sailing into a rocky cliff, would a Gulfstar or Shannon fared any better?
- a diver could determine the answer
- I believe so.
- Sounding more and more like tillerman-style navigating, to me...
- I thought I read some had done it before...
- Easy thing to do for someone who isn't that familiar with a particular plotter...
- If my reading of a chart is correct
- An observation
- Then there's this report, I witness says she saw the boat run down by a tanker.
- I didn't see any mention of a colission in the text
- Sounds like an Eileen Quinn song