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• Extreme hard core, or Darwin Award Candidates? You decide...
  • That's scary
  • I wouldn't put it on a trailer in that weather...
  • With an eddy in the gulf stream going the "wrong way" in an eddy, that could become horriffic, couldn't it?
    • The front just blasted through here
  • I read the story again . . .
    • If the make it Bermuda without stopping, I will be amazed
      • They may not have any choice … looks to me
        • Let's hope we hear.
        • If they were west of the stream, they might be advised to keep it that way and head south/SE?
  • Good News - they're alive...
    • And, in related news...
    • I guess we all knew that they weren't going to get very far. Ass holes.
    • This is the Buoy report only 54 nm from Nantucket at 1:50 PM (Local Time)
      • Classic quip from some wag over on SAILING ANARCHY, sums this one up pretty neatly...
    • Well golly gee that's surprising
    • Here's the CG video...
      • The boat does not seem to be in bad shape
        • My guess
    • Footage and USCG Site
      • The idiots had a fully inflated zodiac on the fore deck. When stupid isn't enough.
        • According to a poster from Jamestown familiar with the plan, that inflatable also served as their liferaft
      • Rob Almeida's comments (Lunatics, a-holes, idiots… whatever you want to call them…) on G-captain are
        • Not just the CG. Did you see the Vinalhaven ferry boat rescued a father and son saturday?
        • Thanks, I think those comments seem about right -- UFB (Inlcuding Blye's observations on the inflatable on the deck)
  • They don't qualify for the DA.
    • I'm going to pretend I really wasn't reading any of this ...
      • Maybe they didn't know about weather reports???
      • Yeah, he makes this stuff up all the time.