27 for blue water?
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Do not spam the forum with the same post over and over.
How do you, and can you, prepare for the worst?
Many examples in All Is Lost (2013) survival-at-sea drama film with Robert Redford.
Water floods his boat while asleep; collided with a wayward shipping container; ripped a hole in the hull. Tilts the boat away from the hole. Patches the hole. Uses the manual bilge pump to remove water from the cabin. Navigational and communications systems damaged by saltwater intrusion. Unsuccessful attempt to repair the marine radio. Climbs the mast to repair an antenna lead; sees an oncoming tropical storm. Runs before the wind to bring the boat into a hove-to position, but crawling to the bow to hoist the storm jib, he is thrown overboard. Regains the deck after a long struggle. The boat capsizes, turtles after a further 180-degree roll, dis-masted, and most of the equipment is destroyed. Boat sinking, abandons ship in an inflatable life raft, salvaging whatever he can to survive. Learns to operate a sextant, discovers he is being pulled towards a major shipping lane by ocean currents. Survives another storm but his supplies dwindle. Learns too late that his drinking water has been contaminated with sea water. Improvises a solar still from his water container and a plastic bag. Passed by two container ships, which do not see him, despite his use of all the signal flares. Drifts out of the shipping lane with no food and water. On the eighth day, writes a letter, puts it in a jar, and throws it in the water. Sees a light in the distance, tears pages from his journal along with charts to create a signal fire. Fire grows out of control and consumes his raft. Falls into the water and allows himself to sink. Underwater, he sees the hull of a boat with a search light approaching his burning raft. He swims up towards the surface to grasp an outstretched hand.
Many examples in All Is Lost (2013) survival-at-sea drama film with Robert Redford.
Water floods his boat while asleep; collided with a wayward shipping container; ripped a hole in the hull. Tilts the boat away from the hole. Patches the hole. Uses the manual bilge pump to remove water from the cabin. Navigational and communications systems damaged by saltwater intrusion. Unsuccessful attempt to repair the marine radio. Climbs the mast to repair an antenna lead; sees an oncoming tropical storm. Runs before the wind to bring the boat into a hove-to position, but crawling to the bow to hoist the storm jib, he is thrown overboard. Regains the deck after a long struggle. The boat capsizes, turtles after a further 180-degree roll, dis-masted, and most of the equipment is destroyed. Boat sinking, abandons ship in an inflatable life raft, salvaging whatever he can to survive. Learns to operate a sextant, discovers he is being pulled towards a major shipping lane by ocean currents. Survives another storm but his supplies dwindle. Learns too late that his drinking water has been contaminated with sea water. Improvises a solar still from his water container and a plastic bag. Passed by two container ships, which do not see him, despite his use of all the signal flares. Drifts out of the shipping lane with no food and water. On the eighth day, writes a letter, puts it in a jar, and throws it in the water. Sees a light in the distance, tears pages from his journal along with charts to create a signal fire. Fire grows out of control and consumes his raft. Falls into the water and allows himself to sink. Underwater, he sees the hull of a boat with a search light approaching his burning raft. He swims up towards the surface to grasp an outstretched hand.
Original thread Dec 2013.
There must be a way to lock threads that have been dormant for 4 years.
By now, the poster has gone on to some other hobby, having never sailed to Hawaii or anywhere else beyond 20 miles offshore.
I'd enjoy being proven wrong
There must be a way to lock threads that have been dormant for 4 years.
By now, the poster has gone on to some other hobby, having never sailed to Hawaii or anywhere else beyond 20 miles offshore.
I'd enjoy being proven wrong