Two millennials quit jobs, sell everything to sail the world. Boat sinks after 25 miles
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I doubt it. It was a 1969 boat they bought for $5000. Who would insure that? and if they did, I would guess they would have a least a 30 day elimination period, many boats do.
He's 26, she's 24. Losing "everything" is probably not all that much at their ages. They have 30+ years to recover.
They had been learning to sail for "a few months" and they were going to sail around the world? Wow, that's some hubris. They're lucky they sank where they did, not in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Ocean voyages, even short ones, are not to be underaken lightly by novice boaters.
I sympathize, but they were stupid to attempt it with so little sailing experience.
From the comments section . . . . there is a lot of unrecognized genius out there.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a famous trip
That started out in Florida with two hipsters that weren't hip.
The mate wasn't a mighty sailing woman, the captain was a doofus for sure,
They couldn't tie a sailors knot or even a fishing lure.
So join us here each week my friend there will be no boat replacement.
They won't be living on Gilligan's Island, more like in mom's basement.
I can't feel sorry for them. Play idiot games, win idiot prizes. It's a damn good thing they sank practically at the dock. Otherwise they would have died at sea without a trace.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a famous trip
That started out in Florida with two hipsters that weren't hip.
The mate wasn't a mighty sailing woman, the captain was a doofus for sure,
They couldn't tie a sailors knot or even a fishing lure.
So join us here each week my friend there will be no boat replacement.
They won't be living on Gilligan's Island, more like in mom's basement.
I can't feel sorry for them. Play idiot games, win idiot prizes. It's a damn good thing they sank practically at the dock. Otherwise they would have died at sea without a trace.
Not sure they will ever recover....
"they both got “tired” of the sales lifestyle, “of doing things to make people do the things they don’t want to do”.
Pitt grads?
Looks like they sunk all their money in their boat....
And already have more money donated than what they wanted. Maybe they can just live off charity now.
Remember back in the day when people had enough pride not to ask for a handout even for food, let alone another crappy sailboat?
Fun to shit on them but not sure if this was due to operator error:
While sailing through the popular tourist site, the bottom of their boat struck an unseen object underwater and quickly started to take on water, forcing them to evacuate.
While sailing through the popular tourist site, the bottom of their boat struck an unseen object underwater and quickly started to take on water, forcing them to evacuate.
Looks like some folks are too kind. I hope this doesn’t encourage them to try again.
They capsized the boat in the channel heading for the ocean. They are said to be from Colorado in the story I read yesterday so maybe they were all smoked up.
They capsized the boat in the channel heading for the ocean. They are said to be from Colorado in the story I read yesterday so maybe they were all smoked up.
From Nikki:
“How can we live our lives when we’re working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?” Walsh, who booked time-share tours for a living, said to The New York Post.
“Most of the work you do goes to your home. There has to be another option,” she added."
“How can we live our lives when we’re working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?” Walsh, who booked time-share tours for a living, said to The New York Post.
“Most of the work you do goes to your home. There has to be another option,” she added."
"unseen" and "unknown" are usually different things- proper charts that are up to date will show any known wrecks, shallows, etc. Navigation is one of the primary skills required to make it at sea. It sounds like these idiots possessed none of those skills.
How does go fund me work? If I blow all my money on PowerBall tickets people will just give me more money? If so, I want in on that.
Probably struck an artificial reef some other group of millennials were trying to build and gave up on.
although they were living in Co (Breckenridge) the guy was from FL and the gal from PA.
They sold everything they had, spent $5,000 on a boat and $5,000 to renovate it and after it sunk they are left with $90? They were going to sail the world with $90 to their combined names?
They paid $5,000 for the boat and another $5,000 to restore it. So $10,000 total. Throw in another couple grand for whatever else might have been on board and lost. Couldn't be more than $15,000. That's what they lost? I lost that much (more) in my 401k last week and I'm much closer to retirement than they are. Start a gofundme for my retirement please.
One of our clients on Jupiter Island told our lead installer that he lost $3 million last week. Installer said he seemed "grouchy."
If only they had waited for global warming to raise the sea levels.
With the level of experience they had? Sink.what were they planning to do when it got like this?
As I said in my earlier post, sinking where they did might have saved their lives.
I don't know where they hit the object, but anything under water would be clearly marked on the nautical chart for that area. With so little experience I'd be surprised if they could read a nautical chart and this assumes they had nautical charts.
Edit: The article states near Madeira Beach. Here is chart 11411 which clearly shows "many" under water obstructions. Zoom in around the Inlet named John's Pass and you'll see the obstructions...I don't know if these were the culprits but something similar for sure.
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/11411.shtml
Yeah they got tired at the age of 24.
I can't fathom why I would subsidize others to travel around the world when I am stuck at work paying for them to travel around the world.
And, they were living in Breckenridge CO... I don't know if you've ever been there, or even to Colorado, but I can tell you that I'd put up with a whole lot of "trying to convince others to do what they didn't want to do" if I could live in a place like Breckenridge. Especially if I was a young hipster.
In related news, the Soviet Union reports one of their submarines is missing off the Florida Coast.
This wasn't Captain Sidney Reilly was it?He's been MIA for quite a while.
So you're telling me ALL underwater obstructions are on the charts? Long time boater, I can tell you definitively that is not the case.
I don't want to interrupt the circle jerk going on, so, please, proceed.
