Two sailors and dogs rescued after 5 months

[psycho tiller]

I feel like someone had to have posted about this already but I didn't see it anywhere yet. If so move along, nothing to see here.  As usual there must be more to this story than reported.  Were they planning to motor all the way?  Without the engine eventually lost power and nav instruments & without the chart plotter went off course?  Sextant was the plug in model?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-sailors-and-their-dogs-rescued-after-months-adrift-at-sea/

 

[bplipschitz]

Not Kon-tiki style, like some other "intrepid" sailors. . .

 

[couchsurfer]

...''Appel said they survived thanks to water purifiers and a year's supply of dry food on board, including rice, pasta and oatmeal, according to the Navy.''

                        so, uhhh,  doesn't the watermaker require the engine to operate, at least to power batteries ?  

                                  Perhaps there's a wind-powered generator. :mellow:

 

[psycho tiller]

EPIRB, sat phone?  Maybe they used up all the sat phone minutes posting selfies on Facebook and the dog ate the homework, ah, I mean EPIRB?

 

[kent_island_sailor]

FYI there are hand operated water makers.

 

[Car Ramrod]

I'm impressed that the humans didn't eat the dogs after 5 months. 

 

[psycho tiller]

I'm impressed that the humans didn't eat the dogs after 5 months. 

The article failed to mention they started with 6 cats and 4 dogs & were found with 2 dogs.

 

[Somebody Else]

I'm impressed that the humans didn't eat the dogs after 5 months. 

... or vice versa... a more likely scenario given this couple's skill set...

 

[kinardly]

The dogs were probably more than ready to give up the rice, oatmeal and pasta after five months. Word is they haven't left the mess decks since the rescue. 

 

[Hawaiidart]

...''Appel said they survived thanks to water purifiers and a year's supply of dry food on board, including rice, pasta and oatmeal, according to the Navy.''

                        so, uhhh,  doesn't the watermaker require the engine to operate, at least to power batteries ?  

                                  Perhaps there's a wind-powered generator. :mellow:

There is what looks like a wind generator on the stern.  Is that a picture of the "rescue?"  If it is, I'm curious why they didn't deploy those Dacron white things attached to the boom and forestay.  Do people really sail from Hawaii to Tahiti with a "year's supply of food" on board?  I heard this story on our local news this morning and immediately thought to myself that  a lot of this just doesn't add up.  Does anyone have more on this?

 

[Whisper]

Who is climbing the mast?

 

[psycho tiller]

Who is climbing the mast?

The guy with the keys to the engine and halyards got stuck up there 5 months ago and they still can't get him down.

 

[JustaBoat]

just saw this on nbc nightly news-----something smells. Its called a sailboat for a reason...

 

[chuckt]

Yup--looking forward to what Lucy has to say.

I did notice that the story mentioned they were transmitting distress calls "which no one heard until now."  So there must have been power.  

 

[chuckt]

They tried to sail for a couple of months before transmitting distress calls???  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5021671/Two-sailors-rescued-stranded-5-MONTHS.html

 

[full circle]

i'm no geography wizard, but...

...they were sailing from hawaii to tahiti and they were rescued 900 mile se of japan?

 

[shaggy]

From other thread.  Video of rescue.  

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjN8azOpY_XAhVhwYMKHXYgDzIQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FInternational%2Fus-navy-rescues-sailors-lost-pacific-months%2Fstory%3Fid%3D50734707&psig=AOvVaw1ijpO80xjyJFqFivsbm5U7&ust=1509141840742087

 

[Somebody Else]

...I heard this story on our local news this morning and immediately thought to myself that  a lot of this just doesn't add up. 

It sounds like a stolen boat.

And The Sea Will Tell

 

[Ishmael]

That's ridiculous. Why is the weed halfway up the hull?