You got the wrong moral..

The moral of this story .. have a great friend like the one your friend had.

He took it under tow for 8 days ? Wow ,, now that is something.

If a single hander gets sick and must leave his ship, then the vessel is
fair game in the salvage business isn't it?

I wonder why nobody down in Chile got out to Barnes's boat.

Could have been a nice prize, I'd think.

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"Roger Long" wrote
One of those fishing boats would do well to tow it in.

I'm curious why something like that wasn't done. Sinking it seems wasteful
to me, but what do I know?

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-sailorw...,5429998.story
He scuttled his boat, The Privateer, so that it would not present a hazard
to other vessels.

"The boat is about 3,000 feet underwater," Barnes said. "I already put a
quarter-million dollars into it and it would have taken a million dollars
to
recover it" - an estimate confirmed by search and rescue officials in the
Chilean navy.

My understanding is that the Coast Guard will scuttle a derelict vessel
rather
than tow it so that it does not present a hazard to navigation. There was
a
case a few years ago where a vessel on a long voyage came across another
one
in good shape but abandoned. On advice from the CG they scuttled the
abandoned
yacht. Closer to home, a friend of ours was crossing from Bermuda to the
Azores in company with another boat being single handed. The single hander
got
sick and had to abandon to a rescue ship. The Coast Guard ordered the
abandoned vessel, about 28 feet, to be scuttled. Instead, my friend took
it in
tow under power -- for eight days to the Azores where the owner was still
in
hospital. Moral: buy Yanmar.

I wonder if NE Sailboat would have put himself out like that for another
distressed sailor or just dismiss them both as ill-prepared weenies.