Boaters Rescued After Five Months at Sea

[Ben]

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.

Surfboards/kayaks are actually pretty common. In Santa Barbara, there were fewer boats without those on board than with. All the urchin divers, lobster guys, etc. would bring their boards on the little 22'-29' Radons that are so popular there. That was 2-4 boards per boat. Sailboats have a bit less deck room, but even stuff like the Catalina 25s would have a surfboard or kayak tied down somewhere.

[RoadKingLarry]

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.

I see a lot of stand up paddle boards  on the boats at the lake as well as smaller kayaks. I've even strapped my little 12' kayak to the life lines and put it in the water during a raft up.
Kind of a light duty tender/dinghy.

[Hawkmoon]

I guess my age is showing (again).

[RoadKingLarry]

It is a fairly recent trend.
 

[bedlamite]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5063707/Bungling-yachtswoman-kinky-sailor-dominatrix.html

 

[dogmush]

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?

Probably an RO on that size boat.

[TechMan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5063707/Bungling-yachtswoman-kinky-sailor-dominatrix.html

 

Dominatrix...she has been beaten by the ugly stick or that Adam's apple is too small.

[Fly320s]

Dominatrix...she has been beaten by the ugly stick or that Adam's apple is too small.

A real butter face.  Or a man.  Hard to say.

[Jamisjockey]

Surfboards/kayaks are actually pretty common. In Santa Barbara, there were fewer boats without those on board than with. All the urchin divers, lobster guys, etc. would bring their boards on the little 22'-29' Radons that are so popular there. That was 2-4 boards per boat. Sailboats have a bit less deck room, but even stuff like the Catalina 25s would have a surfboard or kayak tied down somewhere.

Yup.  My  buddy out here has a kayak and paddleboard on the bow of his 35' cabo sportfish.

[Doggy Daddy]

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.

In looking at this picture, with no regard to attractiveness or lack of same, can you really say you would trust anything that she says?

[Jim147]

Is that an old pic of micheal Jackson and Barbara Streisand?