I also sent $50 to the Go Fund me asking them to either buy an EPIRB for their next 20 mile jaunt down the coast. Or stay on land and take all the funds and buy matching mopeds...
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- Thread starter Bear44
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Yea... that keel hit something all right.. The bottom.
The boat cannot roll over since the bottom is only about 6 - 7 feet deep. This pic is from their now $15K+ gofundme page.
You can see a channel marker bouy in the background and at top left you can make out the shore line with buildings.
They did do a nice bottom job on that! Some good Interlux Micron Antifouling Paint at about $300 bucks a gallon.. Missed a second coat spot mid hull starboard side...
Do not most boats have some type of sonar capabilities? I mean GPS's geared towards boats have them right?
What if their is a 8-10 surf?
Getting super lucky and not dying of your own stupidity doesn't make you smart...they made it less distance in 2 days than people run on foot in marathons, they might as well have been trying to fly to the moon...they never had a snowballs chance in hell.
They did put people at risk, rescuers had to come save their stupid asses. They had no idea what they were doing and could just as easily have hit another vessel.
If you mean depthfinder.. Yes.. That doesn't mean you won't run up on a shoal.. You have to be in a channel which they clearly are not, if they are in less than 10 ft. water. I can assure you they had minimal electronics if they had less than 15 K in a blowboat.
If your crossing around the world you would need about 100 K worth of electronics and know how to navigate with it and of course without it. My boat had FLIR, as well as a Loran with all software loaded for complete guidance in Intercoastal and offshore. VHF phones for communication are only line of sight. I had Tow US on cell and on VHF freq if needed.
Then they sure shouldn't have been in 10 ft. of water.....
