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[email protected] dougking888@yahoo.com is offline
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Default Red Cloud Abandoned!

wrote:
They reported that they were taking on water, and possibly were holed.
They also had an extra 10,000 pounds of weight aboard, which probably
didn't help either stability or freeboard.



Wayne.B wrote:
Was this his first coffee run?


Yes, brand-new business. Who knows how it would have worked out.

I'm glad to hear that they're safe but sick to hear that their
adventure ended this way.

Doug King