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Re: Survival at Sea, Stove by an Orca
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2020 Jan 13, 12:37 +0300
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2020 Jan 13, 12:37 +0300
I stand corrected. The book by the son "The Last Voyage of the Lucette" says they had an SSB radio. https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=QIEfsO-Z9gQC&lpg=PA91&ots=CtSUQyoDuW&dq=robertson%20%20Lucette%20radio&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=radio&f=false
Also I searched the book for "sextant", it seems I was wrong, there is half a dozen descriptions of celestial navigation but it seems they did not take the sextant with them when they abandoned ship
Also I searched the book for "sextant", it seems I was wrong, there is half a dozen descriptions of celestial navigation but it seems they did not take the sextant with them when they abandoned ship
Bill
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 09:12, Bill Lionheart <billlionheart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I meant "1970s" probably late 70s.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 09:07, Bill Lionheart <billlionheart@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I read the book Survive the Savage Sea in the 1970 when it came out. I
> > didnt read the book by the son though. It was very influential on my
> > thinking about sea survival and voyaging by small boat at the time,
> > even though it was many decades before I bought my own blue water
> > cruiser. It says in the BBC article he fired up his radio and sent an
> > SOS. I don't remember them having a suitable radio. At the time they
> > might have had a 500kHz life boat unit, a 2182kHz "call buoy" or an HF
> > ham rig, Marine MF/HF rigs were huge at that time and used loads of
> > power so it is unlikely they had one. The nearest to an EPIRB was a
> > 121.5 aeronautical beacon which relied on line of sight to a plane.
> >
> > I seem to remember he threw a sextant and a chart in the boat before
> > they sank, and a knife which was the most crucial thing to their
> > survival.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 03:48, Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a story of a schooner in the Pacific sailing from the Galapagos to the Marquesas that was sunk by a killer whale:
> > > https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-how-to-survive-being-shipwrecked-by-whales
> > >
> > > They all survived in a little dinghy, and there's a point where they were able to estimate their latitude by sighting Polaris (not much detail in the article but you get the idea). As I started into the article, I was waiting for the part about the EPIRB but then in the fifth paragraph I realized why there was no EPIRB. The article is a good read by itself, and it's such a low key advert that I find myself interested in buying and reading the book on which it's based.
> > >
> > > Frank Reed
> > >
> > >
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 09:12, Bill Lionheart <billlionheart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I meant "1970s" probably late 70s.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 09:07, Bill Lionheart <billlionheart@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I read the book Survive the Savage Sea in the 1970 when it came out. I
> > didnt read the book by the son though. It was very influential on my
> > thinking about sea survival and voyaging by small boat at the time,
> > even though it was many decades before I bought my own blue water
> > cruiser. It says in the BBC article he fired up his radio and sent an
> > SOS. I don't remember them having a suitable radio. At the time they
> > might have had a 500kHz life boat unit, a 2182kHz "call buoy" or an HF
> > ham rig, Marine MF/HF rigs were huge at that time and used loads of
> > power so it is unlikely they had one. The nearest to an EPIRB was a
> > 121.5 aeronautical beacon which relied on line of sight to a plane.
> >
> > I seem to remember he threw a sextant and a chart in the boat before
> > they sank, and a knife which was the most crucial thing to their
> > survival.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 03:48, Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a story of a schooner in the Pacific sailing from the Galapagos to the Marquesas that was sunk by a killer whale:
> > > https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-how-to-survive-being-shipwrecked-by-whales
> > >
> > > They all survived in a little dinghy, and there's a point where they were able to estimate their latitude by sighting Polaris (not much detail in the article but you get the idea). As I started into the article, I was waiting for the part about the EPIRB but then in the fifth paragraph I realized why there was no EPIRB. The article is a good read by itself, and it's such a low key advert that I find myself interested in buying and reading the book on which it's based.
> > >
> > > Frank Reed
> > >
> > >
