On Feb 1, 12:20 am, "Capt. JG" wrote:
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Bet it had a keel smile,

Hey Joe... what does that statement mean? As a layperson I'm just
not familiar with that term?

Wow... don't know the guy, but..

Jonathan... today... Latitude 38 had a pretty good presentation of
what
the situation is and the victim envolved.. and the measures that have
been
undertaken by the "coasties" S&R measures... which seemed kind of
thorough.

Since your are a local... at this particular hour... what is now
your take on
this dilemma?

Bill

I just re-read the article, and it's even more strange, given the benign
conditions... 4 ft seas are *nothing*, especially with light air. Either
this some kind of deliberate mis-adventure or it was something catastrophic,
but then there was no debris found. I suppose that's possible given the size
of the search grid, but it seems hard to believe.

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If he hit a potato (in the patch) it ripped off the bolted on keel
and he sunk in just a few seconds. On top of that he was tethered to
the boat and was pulled down with her. Thats my guess. With such light
winds he was motoring at full speed.

Joe

On Jan 31, 9:54 pm, "
wrote:
Bet it had a keel smile,

Hey Joe... what does that statement mean? As a layperson I'm just
not familiar with that term?

Just google "C&C smile". There is some sort of gasket between the cast
keel and the hull, with filler added.
When you see a C&C just hauled from the water you knowtice the flexing
causes a crack at the joint, when you look at the boat from the head
on the crack makes it looks as if it's smiling. Bobspirt had this
problem with the C&C he had.

Joe

Here's a possible scenario...

He's out there to scatter his mother's ashes. The wind and seas are
relatively calm, so he's likely running on the engine. Perhaps he has the
autohelm driving. Even sunny, it's pretty cold right now, and with the
moving boat, he's definitely wearing a foulie or something for a wind break.
Since he's a careful sailor, according to all the reports, he's definitely
wearing a PFD is likely tethered to the boat. I would be if single-handing
offshore. (I do that in the bay when by myself on a typical day of 15 to 20
kts.)

He has some sort of catestrophic medical event.. HA, stroke, whatever, and
dies or is incapacitated quickly, unable to summon help. The boat continues
under autopilot at say 7 kts. If this happened at 10 nm offshore, about the
max range of a cell phone in that area, and he wasn't reported missing until
20:30 hours, then when they finally started looking say at 22:00, he would
have been 20 x 7 = 140 nm. It would take them several more hours to search
this far out, so he might be 200 nm off. The boat would have something like
40 gals max. So, at 5 miles per gallon (SWAG) that would be 200 nm until the
engine died, but if sails were up, it would still be going. Perhaps he was
able to sail for part of the trip. If so, that would extend the range. The
winds were light, under 10 kts, but that's still enough to make good
progress.

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"Joe" wrote in message
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On Jan 31, 9:54 pm, "
wrote:
Bet it had a keel smile,

Hey Joe... what does that statement mean? As a layperson I'm just
not familiar with that term?

Just google "C&C smile". There is some sort of gasket between the cast
keel and the hull, with filler added.
When you see a C&C just hauled from the water you knowtice the flexing
causes a crack at the joint, when you look at the boat from the head
on the crack makes it looks as if it's smiling. Bobspirt had this
problem with the C&C he had.

Joe



Here's a good link:

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/m...curynews_local

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