The guy who saved the other boat .. was he sailing alone also? In a Triton?

Now here is a sailor who should be getting some attention .. not the Barnes.

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In article 6ccoh.960$2D.358@trndny07, says...


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?

Well, in those circumstances, salvage isn't a business, it's an
opportunity
the value of which depends entirely on the value of the vessel and its
contents. A wrecked yacht that must be towed a few hundred miles probably
has
no value. The same yacht about to go on the rocks may have considerable
value.
A large ship with a valuable cargo is another matter entirely. It's all
about
money. Some sea lawyer will have to answer but I believe the value of the
salvage charged to the owners may not exceed the actual value of the
vessel
and contents, though I do vaguely recall that there can be recompense too
for
time and materials.

The Yanmar was brand new, bought at that year's Annapolis show, to replace
a
gasoline-leaking Atomic 4. The boat (towing boat) was -- still is -- a
Triton.
Not only did he tow the other boat for 800 miles he also swam from his
boat to
the other and back to recover the owner's valuables just in case he did
have
to cut the other boat loose, which of course he would have had to do had
the
weather gone bad. He told us that swim was the scariest part of the whole
thing.

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

See above.

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

Probably not, all things considered