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Len

Saw this in another forum.
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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