Alan Gomes wrote:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/032...p_aground.html


Those ships (Irving and Exy) are Crelock designs, absolutely beautiful.
I've sailed on them.

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is in
the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the anchors I
could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing head to the
swell and wind.

Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is in
the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the anchors I
could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing head to the
swell and wind.

The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew

"Lew Hodgett" wrote
Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is in
the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the anchors I
could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing head to the
swell and wind.

The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew

The seas were breaking (in the pictures and video) only a hundred+ yards
from the beach, where the vessel is up against the breakwater, and on the
wrong side of the breakwater/channel entrance. Out where he first ran into
trouble would have been the time to drop anchor! Sails are the worst enemy
of a vessel being blown against a lee shore, and furling them might have
been the only smart thing the Captain did, aside from getting everyone off
safe.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Jim wrote:

I can't understand why the anchors are still aboard and the dinghy is
in the davits. First thing I would have done was to run all the
anchors I could find as far out as possible and try to horse the thing
head to the swell and wind.


The seas were such that the dinghy would probably have swamped before
you got 100 ft out.

It is a beautiful boat, but not worth a human life.

Lew
Lew;
It wasn't that rough that day. The dinghy is a 13 foot Avon rib with a
15/20 horse outboard.

I have the same dinghy, with a 25.

That boat will handle a lot more than anything that they could have
found that day.

Probably not swamped a 12 or 14 foot rib (which they might carry) but
launching the small boat is really challanging (read dangerous) in a
good seaway.

Ben wrote:
Probably not swamped a 12 or 14 foot rib (which they might carry) but
launching the small boat is really challanging (read dangerous) in a
good seaway.


And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:36:50 -0500, DSK wrote
this crap:



And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK


DSK is a lying cocksucker, and a coward.

DSK has posted blatent lies on this newsgroup, and when he is proven
to be a liar, he doesn't have the balls to defend himself.





This post is 100% free of steroids

Horvath wrote in
:

DSK is a lying cocksucker, and a coward.

DSK has posted blatent lies on this newsgroup, and when he is proven
to be a liar, he doesn't have the balls to defend himself.





This post is 100% free of steroids


Oh, oh.....rec.boat's disease, again......

In article ,
says...


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:36:50 -0500, DSK wrote
this crap:



And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK


DSK is a lying cocksucker, and a coward.

DSK has posted blatent lies on this newsgroup, and when he is proven
to be a liar, he doesn't have the balls to defend himself.

Plonk!

Never thought I would have to kill file someone in this group.

Gogarty wrote:
In article ,
says...


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:36:50 -0500, DSK wrote
this crap:


And more so when the boat is aground and has no ability or tendency to
move in sympathy with the waves.

DSK


DSK is a lying cocksucker, and a coward.

DSK has posted blatent lies on this newsgroup, and when he is proven
to be a liar, he doesn't have the balls to defend himself.


Plonk!

Never thought I would have to kill file someone in this group.


He isn't from "this group," this is the result of crossposting.