jeff wrote:
Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.

A boat coming apart in 20 foot seas? What type of boat is this?

wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:07:27 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote:

jeff wrote:
Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.
A boat coming apart in 20 foot seas? What type of boat is this?

A 42 foot steel ketch with a 5 ton cargo of coffee beans.


Homebuilt?

Goofball_star_dot_etal wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:10:00 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:07:27 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote:

jeff wrote:
Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.
A boat coming apart in 20 foot seas? What type of boat is this?
A 42 foot steel ketch with a 5 ton cargo of coffee beans.


Homebuilt?

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...d3cf0830?hl=en

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...b301cad27f766b

Very sad.



Sounds like they were inexperienced. Sad tale. Although I was unaware of
these guys, I wish that they could have succeeded.

Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:48:15 GMT, wrote:

They reported that they were taking on water, and possibly were holed.
They also had an extra 10,000 pounds of weight aboard, which probably
didn't help either stability or freeboard.

Was this his first coffee run?

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:21:20 -0500, "Roger Long"
wrote:

The buoy reports for the area don't show the winds so bad that a vessel like
Red Cloud with a master as experienced as Joe should have gone down unless
there was a flooding problem.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.p...eas=wdpr&uom=E

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.p...eas=wdpr&uom=E

There are near gale conditions over much of the Gulf right now, and
it's out of the north and *cold* by our standards. Not a good place
to be for a heavily loaded 40 footer.

here's the CG report. Says Terry had an injured leg.

http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/425/187752/


SBV


"jeff" wrote in message
...
Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him
from ASA:


http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...102_ac_cgrescu
e.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.

wrote:
They reported that they were taking on water, and possibly were holed.
They also had an extra 10,000 pounds of weight aboard, which probably
didn't help either stability or freeboard.


Wayne.B wrote:
Was this his first coffee run?

Yes, brand-new business. Who knows how it would have worked out.

I'm glad to hear that they're safe but sick to hear that their
adventure ended this way.

Doug King

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:10:00 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:07:27 -0700, Paul Cassel
wrote:

jeff wrote:
Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.
A boat coming apart in 20 foot seas? What type of boat is this?

A 42 foot steel ketch with a 5 ton cargo of coffee beans.


Homebuilt?

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...d3cf0830?hl=en

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...b301cad27f766b

Very sad.

jeff wrote in news:G4ydnf64SN-
:

Joe didn't post here often, but for those that know him from ASA:

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stori...ue.c061dc.html

A sad day - at least they are all safe.


Sad, indeed. He must have had HF/SSB aboard to call the hams, maybe on
14.300 Mhz. I wonder what he was doing out there without a 406 Mhz EPIRB?
The story or video made no mention of an EPIRB alarm.

Sounded like the mainmast must have busted loose and was tearing the cabin
roof apart.

Glad they're all safe....including the dog.

Larry
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