"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a7776b$0$9653
:

If you are going blue water, ask yourself how you would handle this
situation in your boat and then prepare mentally and physically.



Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Hope yours never activates.....or ours.

Larry
--
Extremely intelligent life exists that is so smart they never called Earth.

Hi Larry,

Larry wrote:

Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

See the link in my other post. He was rescued by
a freighter, but they apparently declined to pick
up his custom built 14 foot boat.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Agreed. GPIRBs are the thing to have--and a
satellite phone to keep the loved ones from
freaking when they are notified that your EPIRB
was activated. Gives you something to entertain
you while you're waiting.

Now that I think about it, that video camera is a
good idea too. The film rights might be worth
something if there is enough drama. I liked his
video drama shot like "The Blair Witch Project".

Of course, stuff like this scares the bejezuz out
of the reluctant spouses, thereby ensuring that
there are more solo sailors out there

Don W.

Don W wrote in news:xaRph.8369
:

Of course, stuff like this scares the bejezuz out
of the reluctant spouses, thereby ensuring that
there are more solo sailors out there


I don't think that's a bad thing. She might take more interest in the
boats OPERATION and maintenance and less interest in how pretty the cushion
colors look with those drapes. Way too many women aboard are just dead
weight passengers. Men need to test this out when crusing around the
harbor. Without warning, call down to The Princess on the settee and say,
"I just fell overboard. What do you do?", and sit back in the cockpit and
let the boat round up into the wind on its own with no helmsman.

For some, the test would be quite a shock to watch.....

Larry
--
Extremely intelligent life exists that is so smart they never called Earth.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:19 -0500, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a7776b$0$9653
:

If you are going blue water, ask yourself how you would handle this
situation in your boat and then prepare mentally and physically.



Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Hope yours never activates.....or ours.

His EPIRB was heard. Here's the story of his rescue:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/expediti...-05-09-26.html

and here's more about him:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/whoisdom...s-dom-mee.html

He's quite a character.

Steve

Steve wrote in
:

He's quite a character.


Aye, that himself is.....

Thanks

Larry
--
Extremely intelligent life exists that is so smart they never called Earth.

Sounds like a nut to me.


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"Steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:19 -0500, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a7776b$0$9653
:

If you are going blue water, ask yourself how you would handle this
situation in your boat and then prepare mentally and physically.



Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model
RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to
feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Hope yours never activates.....or ours.

His EPIRB was heard. Here's the story of his rescue:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/expediti...-05-09-26.html

and here's more about him:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/whoisdom...s-dom-mee.html

He's quite a character.

Steve

Steve wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:19 -0500, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a7776b$0$9653
:

If you are going blue water, ask yourself how you would handle this
situation in your boat and then prepare mentally and physically.


I can't get the video to work - has it gone somewhere else?

Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Hope yours never activates.....or ours.

His EPIRB was heard. Here's the story of his rescue:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/expediti...-05-09-26.html

and here's more about him:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/whoisdom...s-dom-mee.html

He's quite a character.

Steve