"The time of year had nothing to do with what happened to my boat. I've had incredibly good weather my whole entire trip. I've had better weather than most people," she insisted.
I'm speechless.
I think the Sunderland's newly appointed PR person will change this because if the weather isn't to blame what is? Incompetence? Lack of preparation? Lack of sailing skills? I've seen the concept "rogue wave" thrown around here by those who also proclaim her "sailing royalty". All waves in the Southern Ocean are "rogue".
On a more cheerful note:
What is diBenedetto up to recently?
Saturday June 12 th 2010
"This night there was a beautiful show for Alessandro given by the dolphins evolving among the plankton around the boat. Real acrobats! This morning a bench of tunas approached a little too near the boat , ar least for one of them. A beautiful specimen of 3 kg fished by Alessandro, cut into fillets, fried in a frying pan, with tomato sauce, parsley, a pinch of salt, (a line of "Sicilian" olive oil with pasta “al dente” obviously, without forgetting the coffee!"
He is currently off the coast of Mauritania and soon to be home! If we were all so "envious", why would we be cheering this guy or Jessica? It has nothing to do with envy, it has everything to do with sorrow that this girl didn't make it but it was doomed from the get-go.
Not only should Abby's family be forced to pay for the rescue, that irresponsible American man from Colorado who just got caught in Afghanistan trying to find and kill Osama Bin Laden (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535300/posts) should be forced to pay for his own rescue too. .
Not only is he way too old to take on such a strenuous challenge, he wasn't properly funded, he had NO insurance, he went equipped with only a pistol and a dagger, and he knowingly went into extremely dangerous territory, IN A WAR ZONE.
How stupid and irresponsible. The family shouldn’t have allowed him to go.
He was doing it for the fame, and either his family should be forced to promise to pay for his rescue, or we should abandon him where he’s at.
I don’t think she knew what she was getting into either. Not the Southern Ocean in winter. And it’s true, she’s no sailor in the sense that after two days her decks were still cluttered with foot traps and her rig was still trailing astern. No attempt at self help, cutting away or jury rigging, which is Big League Sailing 101. (If you go into the Southern Ocean at any time of year, you are in Big League Sailing by default.)