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.