Posted on 07/05/2013 8:13:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The New Zealand authorities have formally called off the search for the sailing cruiser Nina, and say its seven-person crew, which includes Evi Nemeth who for the last 30 years has written the system administration handbooks for Unix and Linux, is now presumed lost at sea.
Nemeth was sailing off the western coast of New Zealand in the missing 21-metre vintage wooden schooner with its owner David Dyche, 58; his wife, Rosemary, 60, and their son David, 17; Kyle Jackson, 27; Danielle Wright, 18, and Briton Matthew Wootton, 35. The boat was last heard from on June 4, when Nemeth requested meteorological information about rough weather they were encountering.
"Sails shredded last night," along with the promise of a course update later, was the last message from the Nina, the authorities said on Thursday. The update never came.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Well, my wife came up with it this afternoon...she spends a lot of time on MSN.....games and stuff....anyway the story looked real enough, but the links on the page did not work. That bothered me and the story did not appear to be indexed on the news portals home page...
So.....not being able to prove it was fake, I thought I would ask and just maybe another FReeper might have a way to bust the fakery.....It seems that resort gets all sorts of hoax stories...
“Internet hoaxes have plagued the five-star resort, located 17km north of Kerikeri.
In 2006, Tom Hanks didn’t die there, while two years later, Tom Cruise didn’t meet a similar fate.
The fictitious curse also ensnared Jeff Goldblum and Orlando Bloom.”
Given all the famous people who didn’t die there, I am surprised that this is the first time I have ever heard of it. :)
I singlehanded a 38 ft Hans Christian sloop from Oxnard Ca @ Channel Islands Harbor to Hawaii and back in 1982. Took 17 days to get there and 25 days to get back
Wow! So you crossed that one off your bucket list early! Wonder what is still on that list!
(worked at sea, duly impressed!)
Growing up on a farm, my father would howl when news casters would report a tornado stayed on the ground for 30 miles, but “luckily didn’t damage anything”. If a town wasn’t hit, “nothing had happened”.
Exactly!
I didn’t die there 4 months ago.
However, I wouldn't go out on the high seas on it for all the tea in New Zealand. I can also realistically picture the boat as it looks in a violent, raging storm...when beauty doesn't count.
No thanks. Just looking at that photo gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Leni
Hope to overcome that one day, but even after a dozen attempts in the Caribbean, GOM, and off the coast of Alaska, I'm still violently afflicted.
Still looking to overcome it though. So if you know of any cure, please share it. Perhaps a few days at sea might do it, but I wouldn't want to be out of range of being able to be airlifted at whatever price. lol
of that trip......a funny...as can be imagined one sees stuff for the 1st time like hundreds of dolphin at one, a breaching what...or shark and I would belt out...did you see that !!!...remember I singlehanded........also the morning of the 4th day I come out the quarter berth sleepin one eye open and a pelican is atop my mast
I bellow hey dude...how is it goin, what’s the news state side
said pelican pooped on me
well....for a year I made myself a hand on wet Wednesdays in Channel Islands...meanin sailboat racin.....different courses and you learn to do whats needed.....and stuff like a rope at sea is a line...a map at sea is a chart etc
then I studied FOR FREE at the Coast Guard auxillary in the harbor all things sailing
so my education save time...was free
and stuff like a rope at sea is a line...a map at sea is a chart etc...And a boat going under the waves Is a “SHIITE”!.
lmao......well there is that
Then what's a halyard??? lol
the finest harp there is
The only sure cure for seasickness is getting back on flat water, and better, on land.
I’d look at houseboats and cruising on the inland waters as a viable “escape pod” option in much of the American SE.
I believe if I can ever get past it, and that may take several days at sea on a small boat, I think it might be the answer to being at least semi-cured.
What kind of 20 knot 20 foot boat?
Then there is this nice 57' footer (it needs 1,000 hp to get to those speeds).
The 20' fishing boat I rode for 32 miles, both ways, through 6' seas was one similar to the boat picture below, also with a 150 hp mercury. I did great until we stopped, and they asked me to cut up the squid. Thank God there was an oil rig nearby with a rope dangling I was able to scurry up!
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