"Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message
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"Roger Long" wrote
One of those fishing boats would do well to tow it in.

I'm curious why something like that wasn't done. Sinking it seems wasteful
to me, but what do I know?

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-sailorw...,5429998.story
He scuttled his boat, The Privateer, so that it would not present a hazard
to other vessels.

"The boat is about 3,000 feet underwater," Barnes said. "I already put a
quarter-million dollars into it and it would have taken a million dollars
to recover it" - an estimate confirmed by search and rescue officials in
the Chilean navy.



I would like to think that I'm such a fantastic sailor that I could have
brought The Privateer safely into port after suffering the conditions that
rendered her dismasted and without power. I say I like to *think* so. But
the truth is that none of us know the conditions Barnes endured, or for how
long, or how any of us really would have handled ourselves, and our vessel,
in that situation. And I'm damned glad that I wasn't there. Cap't Barnes
deserves our respect, not condemnation.

Karin