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YIKES! The CG helo didn't have enough fuel to make it back to their base in Elizabeth City... 
In Response To: Remember that $2.3 million Gunboat that was chosen CRUISING WORLD's Boat of the Year...? ()
...Instead, they landed at Dare County Airport on Roanoke Island, "on fumes", according to Peter Johnstone... Holy shit...
They originally tried to evacuate to a merchant ship that had come to their assistance, but it was deemed too dangerous, after RAINMAKER was "repeatedly bashed" against the side of the ship (again, according to Johnstone)
Jeremy, when you mention deja vu, are you referring to the Alpha 42 lost out there last January, or the Gunboat 66 PHAEDO dismasted in moderate conditions in the Transpac in 2013? (grin)
Absolutely amazing that no one has yet been seriously injured, or worse, as a result of one of these monstrous rigs coming down, seems like just a matter of time...
Messages In This Thread
- Remember that $2.3 million Gunboat that was chosen CRUISING WORLD's Boat of the Year...?
- 36 hours?
- YIKES! The CG helo didn't have enough fuel to make it back to their base in Elizabeth City...
- Latest update, and the CG video...
- These guys need to listen to Don Street
- The USCG video shows one of the roughest seastate I've noticed from a video of a "lift-out"
- Why would anyone take
- I'd still like one.... even if I couldn't afford the insurance
