On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:17:26 -0400, you wrote: >On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Rosalie B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:12:52 -0400, you wrote: >> >> spring). They were really lucky IMHO because a) I don't think they should >> have been out there at night - there are plenty of places off the channel >> that >> they could have anchored. And b) the man couldn't have been thinking >> clearly if >> he ignored the radar. He was ill and was on his way back home to get medical >> treatment - they had been planning to sell their boat and move ashore. All >> the more reason to stop for the night. >> >As much as we might abhor it... barges do get towed without lights... It >seems to me that it was an act of god.. in this market selling that boat might >have been >hard..
This was about 4 years ago. Although selling a boat is always a crap shoot. >Neptune stepped in and 'sold' it for them so to speak.. they both got out >alive.. point in fact.. the barge was unlit.. it is negligence on the part of >the >tow company..the lawyers must have had a field day with that one. > This barge wasn't unlit or at least there was NO allegation that the tug operator was in any way at fault. The barge was being towed and the tow line was about 300 feet IIRC. >It is easy playing armchair sailor in a situation you might find yourself in >someday... >kudo's for the couple to have the cool head to get the life raft deployed >and into it in the mere 5 minutes before the boat itself sank. It could have >ended much worse. That is quite true. I don't know if they had a life raft or a dinghy, but they got out into something and that's good. What got my goat was that a) They complained about not being picked up quickly when they were off the shore of a VERY rural county where the fire department rescue people are all volunteers and their boat sinking was about 3 a.m. There's nothing there on that shore - no marinas or settlements. I think they should count themselves lucky that they were found so quickly. Just getting the word to the fire department and getting them down to the boat could take half an hour. It isn't as if it was a normal happening. b) They seemed to take no responsibility the accident being partly due to his leaving the boat on autopilot and going below when he had a boogie on the radar. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
