Cruising Sailors Forum Archive

Messages In This Thread

• Eric and Charlotte tell their story on NPR tomorrow
  • Know what time?
    • different times depending on local stations
      • Thanks, I look forward to hearing that.
  • Here's the transcript...
    • The SIM card thing is a real fiasco...
      • SO TRUE AND sadly takes place often!
        • That should worry anyone that relies on that communication.
    • Being a "heavily built" production cruiser, they probably used #12 sheet metal screws for the deck rather than #10...
      • Some production boats...
      • That isn't how that boat was built
        • Turns out, the boat had teak decks over rotten plywood...
          • I just saw that
    • After reading the interview
    • I waited for the audio podcast. It's a good one.
      • From what we know, their abandonment makes far more sense than the Alpha 42 to me...
        • That perspective softens mine a bit
        • I don't think the flotsam part is valid criticism
          • I'll bet that Alpha would sink just fine...
            • I think you're very wrong about that
              • I know a lot of people think that...
                • After criticising the crew for not sinking the boat, you don't even know if it is reasonably possible?
                  • I was sitting in my armchair when I wrote it!
                • My prior boat
                • The Lagoon comparison is a red herring
                  • Either way
                  • You may be right about it being some work - but I guess we will know in a year or so?
                    • You don't think the surface area of a catamaran is much more than your boat?
                      • I have read estimates of less than 2x, but I don't have CAD files for the Alpha...
                        • Leaving beam out of it for now
                          • A couple of points on that...
                    • I gotta disagree on one point. "....speaks more to their watch keeping than unmarked hazards"
                      • I would put it as concern #400 . Has it ever happened?
                        • I seen the movie......recently.....
          • Great vision. "The CG stands by as the last crew of BE GOOD TOO fires up a screaming 550P Huskavarna chainsaw,..."
          • That seems a valid point... Also, it wouldn't surprise me...
    • I'm thinking that the broach was strong enough