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• My buddy who's boat is now adrift at sea, seems to think it'll end up in Canada or the Azores. Does that make sense?
  • More likely to go South of Puerto Rico
    • It would be ironic if the boat got to the Caribbean before they do.
  • Why didn't they scuttle it?
    • I don't know, but in a earlier post scrambling off a broken boat may be safer than off a broken and now sinking boat.
      • Precisely
        • Armchair sailor??
          • Jim told me on the sat phone call he couldn't believe that the boat didn't break up with all the pounding
            • Quite an account, Blye. What was their plan?
              • They were planning on leaving the boat in the Caribbean for at least a few years.
            • I have a dedecated valve under
          • Anyone
  • The Azores??? Has this guy ever looked at a pilot chart of the North Atlantic...?
    • It may be that they reported having trouble getting the boat to steer anything but North. The exact quote was