Albin Vega "Berserk"

sendin52 · Jan 5, 2002

Michael Kranz cecil_pigou@... writes:

| Dear all,, i have heard about the Vega Berserk, which sailed to
| antarctic waters. | Now I heard that "Berserk" sunk in cold
| waters. Does anyone know about the circumstances?
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| It woult be interesting to know to be able to avoid such a desaster.
|
| Thank you for your comments!
Hi,

Jarle Andoy, sailed Berserk to Antarctica and back to
Chile. Unfortunately he went aground some hundres meters from shore on
the Chilean coast.

Personally I think he took a lot of chances. Mr Andoy is young (18-20
years) and had also a lot of luck. He took probably more chances than
most of us will do. In Norway we have 4 famous lads who sailed around
the world in SY Sorgenfri in late 80's. (www.sorgenfri.com) They took
a lot of chances and after them we have a sorgenfri-syndrom. Every
young lad wants do to it better so we will see a lot of young
berserk-guys sailing down to antartic in years to come.

Some will be lucky and get back and some won't.

--
/Jonny

stevebirch2002 · Jan 5, 2002

Hi

The way to avoid sinking in the Antartic is not to sail there. There is a
video available explaining what happened and it seems that at the end of
the video after returning from the Antartic "Berserk" hit an object in the
dark. The final moments of the video are of the Vega slowly sinking beneath
the water whilst being filmed from their dinghy!! A very sad end for any
vega.

Steve Birch
At 16:45 05/01/02 +0100, you wrote:

Albin Vega &quot;Berserk&quot;

cecil_pigou

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sendin52

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stevebirch2002

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Albin Vega "Berserk"