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Fwd: Subject: [TheDingyDock] Skip and Lydia Gundlach need help
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Both are safe but are homeless. Regards, Len. To: From: "George Huffman" thatboatguy2@... Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:17:37 -0000 Subject: [TheDingyDock] Skip and Lydia Gundlach need help This is a cut and paste. If anyone can render assistance please do. I've emailed them to let them know I'll be in the area soon and I've offered my services free to the extent I can help. George Skip Gundlach to Morgan show details 2:29 pm (0 minutes ago) Please continue the dialogue going, as it's very comforting at the moment but... We are ashore, in the care of the Red Cross at the moment. Aside from the adrenalin rush and some bruises from being knocked around, we are entirely fine physically. Mentally we're more than bummed, as you can guess. Until salvage operations commence, which due to the weather (the main contributing factor to our blowing off course) won't be until tomorrow morning at the earliest, we won't know the realities. At a minimum, since the boat will be taken to Marathon, we could use some temporary hospitality there. There are definitely breaches in the starboard hull but the boat is very high and dry at the moment, on its side. We don't know what the pounding which caused a lot of flexing inside may have done to the bulkheads and tabbing, but the reefer and settee and engine mounts were all moving notably - not a really good sign. If there is any good news, the water was so shallow that it never got to the floorboards, even with the very severe heel, and when I went around shutting the through-hulls, I never got my hands wet. So, with any luck, the damage is mostly above the water line, presumed somewhat simpler to address and less likely to affect the integrity of the hull. None the less, it's certain we'll be some months, if ever, before we are back aboard, our only home, with every possession in the world, having given away our car the day we left. At any event, we can still be reached via email, when we have access, which will persist until tonight, at the Red Cross, and then at the Days Inn in KWW, we expect, where we'll be for the next three days. After that, we're truly homeless (does being in the RC or a Days Inn relieve us from homelessness? The boat was our entire world - our home and every single possession)... In any case, thank you for your prayers and thoughts. We're physically well, and mental basket cases, though we are managing to get things done. More as we know more. Feel free to pass this around to other lists on which we participate, as you may be aware if you're on them, too, from having seen our posts in those. Right now we're a bit busy to do that ourselves... L8R Love from Skip and Lydia, Homeless... |
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