On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:39:33 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:49:52 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:32:33 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Jan 26, 4:43*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:56:07 -0800, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."

wrote:
Tim wrote:

...in three years. I would have been kinda cool if there was a
tracking device on board to follow it.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...-years-after-u...

Open boat and hatches for three years. How did it NOT fill with rain water
and sink?

The video shows a clean spot on the bottom of the hull. Did this thing flip
and float upside down for three years.

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I think it must have positive flotation of some sort built in to the
hull.

Must have been a pretty good boat!

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Possibly but I'd argue that a *really* good boat would not have
capsized its occupants into the surf. That's asking a lot of a small
boat in big breaking waves however. A bottle with a cork in it can
survive quite a long time at sea.

http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-photographer/mckenna/laird-hamilton-teahupoo.jpg

http://echeng.com/journal/images/misc/echeng080215_0151769.jpg

http://www.oceanlight.com/stock-photo/salt-creek-surf-photo-14852-359745.jpg

http://users.humboldt.edu/jbader/Webpage/Breaking%20Wave,%20Big%20Island,%20Hawaii.jpg



A seamanship lapse can roll just about any boat and if conditions are
bad enough you are probably going over anyway.

I have not heard how these guys got to shore after they lost the boat.
I am guessing they were close to shore.

I know some Pine Island boys who rolled a 24' Carolina Skiff right in
the St James City inlet one night. They freely admitted it was
operator error. They simply got sideways to the sea trying to turn
around and it went over. The boat followed them to shore and they
managed to salvage it. I never heard how the motor worked out tho.
Going in running is pretty much worst case.

They swam. The whole story is in the link. Good read.