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Oh, yeah, and a 43 foot boat for $10,000 on eBay?    I wonder if they had sea trials and a survey??   And I wonder what their emergency kit consisted of....

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From: Don Seltzer <NoReply_Seltzer@fer3.com>
To: luabel@ymail.com
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 5:41 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: What were they thinking?

"We've never done anything like this. Dad's not even a sailor, but
he's a quick study," Jason McGlashan told the Newport Daily News."

Definitely candidates for the Darwin Award.

Don Seltzer

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Lu Abel  wrote:
> Detailed story in on-line edition of Latitude 38, a San Francisco boating
> magazine.   Apparently this father-son team were stoked by an overabundance
> of overconfidence.   As they put it, "we got plenty of food, plenty of
> booze, and plenty of safety gear."   No mention of "plenty of experience" or
> even "common sense"
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> http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2015-02-16#Story4
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> On 2/16/2015 10:36 AM, Bruce J. Pennino wrote:
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> Hello:
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> In the local Boston news this morning were pictures of a U.S. Coast Guard
> rescue 150 miles east of Cape Cod. Unbelievable storm and wave conditions
> when two Australians were in danger on a 43 ft sail boat. We've had very
> stormy extreme winter conditions for the past month. I have 5-6 ft snow
> drifts in my yard and I'm raking my roof every few days.  The sailors were
> on their way home. With all of the forecasts mostly right-on, and the
> weather more or less predictable.....we've had snow or wind or extreme
> conditions every 5-7 days,these sailors really put themselves and others at
> risk. Gotta rake my roof 10-15 more inches last night and minus 9� F when we
> awoke this AM. Boston and Worcester,MA have set many new weather records.
> About 90 inches of snow in Boston over past 3 weeks. Sorry, snow weather is
> off topic.
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> Bruce
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