"Charlie Morgan" wrote

Update:

The first mate (nicknamed "Blue") and 29 year old Gina Bortolotti, the
chef, were engaged, and had recently bought a house in northern
California. She had a pulse after the collision and he kept her afloat
in the water, but she did not survive. Here is her website:

http://www.bluegina.com

She looks like a sweetheart. What a tragedy. She did live a full and
vibrant life.

Bart Senior wrote:
"Charlie Morgan" wrote

Update:

The first mate (nicknamed "Blue") and 29 year old Gina Bortolotti, the
chef, were engaged, and had recently bought a house in northern
California. She had a pulse after the collision and he kept her afloat
in the water, but she did not survive. Here is her website:

http://www.bluegina.com

She looks like a sweetheart. What a tragedy. She did live a full and
vibrant life.

I don't know about that Bart, if you read the web-site you see both
were planning on getting off the boat and moving ashore. They just
bought a house.

After many years straight crusing, sailing, working offshore, it can
get very old and become a job. One of the things we always hated about
it was being told were to go, when to go, when to leave, when to get
back..ect..ect..ect. Gina mentions it in the logs on-line how they
barely got ashore to see much due to the demands of the job.

From what I know about it, which is not much ( having limited contact
with Yacht Masters) it is a job worse than running an oil field boat
when it comes to bull****, headaches and dealing with clueless
un-caring assholes.

Joe

Joe wrote:
Bart Senior wrote:

She looks like a sweetheart. What a tragedy. She did live a full and
vibrant life.

I don't know about that Bart, if you read the web-site you see both
were planning on getting off the boat and moving ashore. They just
bought a house.

After many years straight crusing, sailing, working offshore, it can
get very old and become a job. One of the things we always hated about
it was being told were to go, when to go, when to leave, when to get
back..ect..ect..ect. Gina mentions it in the logs on-line how they
barely got ashore to see much due to the demands of the job.

From what I know about it, which is not much ( having limited contact
with Yacht Masters) it is a job worse than running an oil field boat
when it comes to bull****, headaches and dealing with clueless
un-caring assholes.

Joe

From what I see of the pictures, they got to spend time ashore doing
fun things.

Still it is sad to hear the story of their new home and think of how
Blue
will be sad there without her. I wonder what he will do now? I've
lost
people close to me, lovers and close relations--it is the worst
possible
feeling.

wrote:
Joe wrote:
Bart Senior wrote:

She looks like a sweetheart. What a tragedy. She did live a full and
vibrant life.

I don't know about that Bart, if you read the web-site you see both
were planning on getting off the boat and moving ashore. They just
bought a house.

After many years straight crusing, sailing, working offshore, it can
get very old and become a job. One of the things we always hated about
it was being told were to go, when to go, when to leave, when to get
back..ect..ect..ect. Gina mentions it in the logs on-line how they
barely got ashore to see much due to the demands of the job.

From what I know about it, which is not much ( having limited contact
with Yacht Masters) it is a job worse than running an oil field boat
when it comes to bull****, headaches and dealing with clueless
un-caring assholes.

Joe

From what I see of the pictures, they got to spend time ashore doing
fun things.

Still it is sad to hear the story of their new home and think of how
Blue
will be sad there without her. I wonder what he will do now? I've
lost
people close to me, lovers and close relations--it is the worst
possible
feeling.

Yeah sure shore time is great, and it's fun...but in that occupation
you are still a servant.
And in that segment there are people lined up to take your place, as
Charlie said all three on the boat were licenced.

No doubt it's a sad loss, I think most of us here are old enough to
have lost people very close to us.

I came real close to loosing Terry when we had the head on boat wreck.
Not sure what I would have done if she was killed that night. I think
Terry was 28 at the time.

I was going to seriously mess up the Captain on the wheel, but he knew
he ****ed up big time and would not defend himself.

The only way Blue is going to have peace is when he make's it with
himself.

Joe