Waaah, we're tired of working...

[MrNoBody]

I could not believe this when I first heard the story.

Couple sells all possessions for sailboat, sinks 2 days into trip

Fox News - wrote:
A couple’s plan for a better life has been sunk.
Nikki Walsh, 24, and boyfriend Tanner Broadwell, 26, decided nearly a year ago that they were tired of working.
“How can we live our lives when we’re working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?” Walsh, who booked time-share tours for a living, said to The New York Post.
“Most of the work you do goes to your home. There has to be another option,” she added.
{wait, the story gets better}
Walsh admitted she and her boyfriend, who used to drive for Uber, were “new to sailing.”

Fox News (sorry s-t)

WTF, you've worked a couple of years and can't take it??
It's called being an adult. You could always join the military or Peace Corps; then you wouldn't have to be concerned about the small sh:t.

[space-time]

Link?

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/11...-trip.html

[Pam]

Meh, they're young. Nothing wrong with postponing adulting to travel and experience life first. Although they probably should have gotten experience sailing before starting their adventure.

[Ombligo]

And they have since raised $10k through a gofundme to try again.

[Winston]

The article is a little misleading. The boat ran aground in a channel where sandbars regularly shift. It didn't just "capsize". One of the pictures shows the boat on its side in the middle of a marked channel (between two channel buoys). I don't know what the charts said, but somebody is supposed to be maintaining navigable marked channels.

" “We thought the channel was where we were going, but it wasn’t,” Walsh told the Post, telling the publication they were armed with GPS and paper navigation charts.

Local boat captains say the sandbars often shift in John’s Pass, the Post reported."


The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulates placements of navigation buoys, and they are maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Boaters are supposed to report any problems to the Coast Guard.
http://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/13...3dec03.pdf
"Boaters need to realize the Coast Guard cannot keep the thousands of aids to navigation comprising the U.S. Aids to Navigation System under continual observation. It is impossible to maintain every aid to navigation at all times. Therefore, for the safety of all boaters, if you discover that an Aid to Navigation is:
• missing
• damaged
• moved from its original position
• displaying an improper signal (light color or timing incorrect, sound signal not functioning)
• a hazard to navigation
Report this information by radio or phone to the nearest Coast Guard Unit or Coast Guard
District Aids To Navigation Office."

Did other boaters know about the sand bar, and not report it? Was it reported, but the Coast Guard didn't take immediate action?

The article implies that they were incompetent, but they were "following the rules". It also doesn't mention how much sailing they did for the two months they lived on the boat before they left for the trip.

I hope they are able to try again.


- Winston

[OWC Jamie]

We have shifting sandbars here all over.
There are notes on the charts stating they move and you have to watch where they currently are.
IDIOTS get stuck all the time.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

billb wrote:
We have shifting sandbars here all over.
There are notes on the charts stating they move and you have to watch where they currently are.
IDIOTS get stuck all the time.

And this is in Omaha, NE!

[OWC Jamie]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=billb]
We have shifting sandbars here all over.
There are notes on the charts stating they move and you have to watch where they currently are.
IDIOTS get stuck all the time.

And this is in Omaha, NE!
You probably shouldn't be using 2 year old charts, with or without the 24 months worth of weekly and monthly Local Notice to Mariners updates on either the Platte or Missouri rivers.

[Racer X]

It's a sail boat. They don't go that fast. They have these things called depth sounders. Pretty cheap. Under a hundred bucks even. Keep an eye on them. Christ, I knew that as a 16 year old city kid.