Boaters Rescued After Five Months at Sea

[Fly320s]

Sad thing is, a couple of women sailing to Tahiti and knocking about the South Pacific in a sailboat could probably be made into a decent book/movie without the BS lies. Now I suspect that if they did fake any of it they will be shamed in the sailor world and have to fall back on blaming Trump for all their misfortune.

Still a better love story than Twilight.

[Fly320s]

Starting to sound like their story is gonna unravel faster than cheap Chinese sweater.

Maybe they were taking lessons from Norwegian submariners.

[Ben]

A few more interesting points:

The "force 11" storm they endured did not exist according to NOAA and NASA data.

A cell phone fell overboard in the nonexistent storm.

They thought about turning around after the nonexistent storm and heading to Maui, but Maui doesn't have a harbor deep enough for their boat. Maui. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sailors-lost-at-sea-didnt-use-emergency-beacon-rescue-us-coast-guard/

[230RN]

RKL said:

"Now I suspect that if they did fake any of it they will be shamed in the sailor world and have to fall back on blaming Trump for all their misfortune."



This whole thing started to sound hokier and hoaxier as time went on.

[Perd Hapley]

Did they also see D.B. Cooper jump out of a Malaysian Airlines jet, which was piloted by Amelia Earhart ?

[BobR]

A few more interesting points:

The "force 11" storm they endured did not exist according to NOAA and NASA data.

A cell phone fell overboard in the nonexistent storm.

They thought about turning around after the nonexistent storm and heading to Maui, but Maui doesn't have a harbor deep enough for their boat. Maui. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sailors-lost-at-sea-didnt-use-emergency-beacon-rescue-us-coast-guard/

They also were able to hail people on Wake but they wouldn't come out and get them because they were on the wrong side of the island. Hmmmm, let's think about this, a vessel in distress,  2 miles away from you but you won't render assistance because they are on the wrong side of the island. Oh yea, that rings true. 

"We actually managed to get a hold of someone. We let them know that we'd been drifting for five months and we needed assistance," Appel said. "And they responded. They said if we could get to the entrance to the harbor, that they would help us.

"But we were on the north side of the island, and the entrance to the harbor is on the south side of the island, and the swell and the wind were pushing (us) west."

bob

[Unisaw]

It seems as phony as Tom Steyer’s impeach Trump petition.

[RoadKingLarry]

Here's some good reading about the intrepid mariners, commentary from some real sailors-

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/194198-two-sailors-and-dogs-rescued-after-5-months/&tab=comments#comment-5967131

[Ben]

Now there is a version where it wasn't the cell phone, but the sat phone that immediately fell overboard. Also coordinated attacks by 30' tiger sharks (Sharknado!). It's all actually becoming entertaining at this point.

My big take away at  the end of all this will be, "poor dogs".

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/01/hawaii-womens-tale-survival-at-sea-unraveling-as-more-evidence-disputes-claims.html

[Jamisjockey]

Now there is a version where it wasn't the cell phone, but the sat phone that immediately fell overboard. Also coordinated attacks by 30' tiger sharks (Sharknado!). It's all actually becoming entertaining at this point.

My big take away at  the end of all this will be, "poor dogs".

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/01/hawaii-womens-tale-survival-at-sea-unraveling-as-more-evidence-disputes-claims.html

Much crazy going on.  I'm in the "bucking for a book deal/tv movie" camp.  These girls are full of *expletive deleted*it.

[Ben]

Much crazy going on.  I'm in the "bucking for a book deal/tv movie" camp.  These girls are full of *expletive deleted*it.

If you correlate all the known information as related by the women at this point and put it in chronological order, it's pretty much the script of a SyFy network disaster movie.

[KD5NRH]

If you correlate all the known information as related by the women at this point and put it in chronological order, it's pretty much the script of a SyFy network disaster movie.

Nah; it still lacks a Burt Gummer type character giving them distasteful-yet-correct advice that they completely ignore no matter how many times he's proven right.

OTOH, I guess they're lucky they didn't get run over by a USN destroyer late at night.

[230RN]

I keep thinking their newly-developed Plan B is for one of them to spill the beans in a book deal about planning the hoax (blaming the other), the two are then outwardly furious at each other, but secretly split the book proceeds.

[TechMan]

Nah; it still lacks a Burt Gummer type character giving them distasteful-yet-correct advice that they completely ignore no matter how many times he's proven right.

OTOH, I guess they're lucky they didn't get run over by a USN destroyer late at night.

 

[Andiron]

They also were able to hail people on Wake but they wouldn't come out and get them because they were on the wrong side of the island. Hmmmm, let's think about this, a vessel in distress,  2 miles away from you but you won't render assistance because they are on the wrong side of the island. Oh yea, that rings true. 


bob

Had to pass on Guam too,  as they didn't want to tip it over.

[Hawkmoon]

The story continues to evolve. When the story broke, the versions I read were that a Taiwanese fishing boat called the Coast Guard, initiating the rescue. Appel's version now is that the Taiwanese fishing boat tried to kill them (but then allowed her on board to use their sat phone to call the Coast Guard).

http://www.newser.com/story/251319/women-lost-at-sea-actually-fishing-vessel-tried-to-kill-us.html

http://time.com/5015057/women-lost-at-sea-tough-questions/

I am commencing to think that Ms. Appel is a few bricks short of a load.

[Doggy Daddy]

I am commencing to think that Ms. Appel is a few bricks short of a load.

Not trying to be mean, and keeping the aPs ideals in mind, I still have to say that you can pretty much tell that just by looking at her.

[Hawkmoon]

Not trying to be mean, and keeping the aPs ideals in mind, I still have to say that you can pretty much tell that just by looking at her.

Either I'm that much older than you are, or my eyesight is worse than I thought. Looking at her web site, I thought she was a pretty good-looking woman.

[RoadKingLarry]

I kinda thought "she" might be a trans. ...

[DustinD]

http://gcaptain.com/watch-lost-at-sea-sailors-attempt-to-clear-the-air-on-story Wow, those ladies. Sorry if this is a duplicate.

[RoadKingLarry]

http://gcaptain.com/watch-lost-at-sea-sailors-attempt-to-clear-the-air-on-story Wow, those ladies. Sorry if this is a duplicate.

That woman is more full of *expletive deleted*it than a Christmas turkey.

[Jamisjockey]

She's digging in on the bullshit shark story.  And those pictures she took....6' sharks at most.

[Ben]

So lemme get this straight - the taiwanese were trying to kill them, so she uses a surfboard to get to and board said taiwanese boat in order to use their sat phone to call the coasties, because the epirb would have alerted the taiwanese to her intent. Cray-cray.

Also, again, bad movie plot.

[Hawkmoon]

So lemme get this straight - the taiwanese were trying to kill them, so she uses a surfboard to get to and board said taiwanese boat in order to use their sat phone to call the coasties, because the epirb would have alerted the taiwanese to her intent. Cray-cray.

Also, again, bad movie plot.

Let us not forget that they would have been dead within 24 hours if the Navy hadn't rescued them -- but they weren't in sufficient danger to activate the EPIRB.

I don't get the surfboard part. I've never cruised on a 50-foot sailboat, but I have owned a 30-footer and crewed on a 45-foot offshore sailboat, and I used to go to multiple sailboat shows every year to ogle the boats I'd never be able to afford. I cannot imagine bringing a surfboard on a sailboat that size for an extended cruise.

[MillCreek]

I like to learn something every day, and in looking at the articles about this, I have a question about the watermaker.  Especially for the size that you would carry on a sailboat, does this work via distillation or an osmotic membrane filter?