42' cat disabled 300nm offshore MD

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Neat boat. But it's single screw cat very specifically designed to track straight on one engine Kurt. :-)

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But my cat wasn't designed that way and still tracks very straight with only one engine running. All cats will operate just fine with one engine (rudder issues aside). Granted, docking with just one is a real bitch! :-)

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Well then that is another reason they perhaps should have looked harder at dropping the rudders.
 
Stainless tube??? I sure hope not... Can't believe either the builder used tube or their PR guy who wrote that piece doesn't know the difference.

Bottom line the boat wasn't built to handle the conditions, regardless of what the builder claim. Again, 300 miles offshore in the North Atlantic in winter is not a place to be for most cruising boats...

Bill, I think your meant "drag something on that side" :). If they dragged something on the side of the dead engine they d turn even faster :)
 
"Bill, I think your meant "drag something on that side" "

Correct. Brain fart.
 
What salty said. Making preparations for sea does not just mean loading the food and gear.

That seems a little water boat improperly used on big water. With better luck and seamanship they might have reached shore on their own but that boat did not belong where it was.
 
If it stays afloat some fisherman in Europe will pick it up. That or a ship will run it down & never know that they struck something.
 
Interesting to read the events unfold. Wonder if, it's a new boat and the systems are new, played into part of the psychology of the events? Not attempting to second guess, as I know these situations are entirely different when thinking about them in the comfort of home versus the heat of the battle. That said…

The rudders are one situation but an engine failure, a generator failure and charging system failure on the running engine?

Wonder how much thought went into trouble shooting and maintaining watch of the charging system, after it was fiddled with, and then appeared to be working?

It will be a shame if the boat is lost.
 
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It will be a shame if the boat is lost.

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It's most likley already gone. It was taking on water at a pretty good clip before they abandoned it. Was a pretty boat, too bad for the new owners.
 
http://www.sailfeed.com/2014/01/be-good-too-answering-critics/ Do these statements bother anybody else?

Because I find them rather disturbing.

"As for Hank’s perspective, he’s a professional delivery skipper. Taking brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather is a big part of that job, at least if you really want to make a living at it."

You would think as a professional his job would be to avoid taking "brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather". As delivery captains isn't it our job to get the boat and crew there safely with little or no damage by not taking those kinds, or any kind for that matter, of boats out into ****ty weather if it can be avoided?

"Some have suggested he should have tried to persuade Gunther and Doris to hop down the coast to the Bahamas instead, but in doing that he would effectively be talking them out of hiring him"

!? Again as a professional should he not have purposed the safest option to the owners whether or not it cost him a job? Because in this case by not at least examining this option it may have cost the owners their brand new boat.
 
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Originally posted by Capt. Bill1

http://www.sailfeed.com/2014/01/be-good-too-answering-critics/

Do these statements bother anybody else?

Because I find them rather disturbing.

"As for Hank’s perspective, he’s a professional delivery skipper. Taking brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather is a big part of that job, at least if you really want to make a living at it."

You would think as a professional his job would be to avoid taking "brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather". As delivery captains isn't it our job to get the boat and crew there safely with little or no damage by avoiding take those kinds, or any kind for that matter, of boats out into ****ty weather if it can be avoided?

"Some have suggested he should have tried to persuade Gunther and Doris to hop down the coast to the Bahamas instead, but in doing that he would effectively be talking them out of hiring him"

!? Again as a professional should he not have purposed the safest option to the owners whether or not it cost him a job? Because in this case not at least examining this option may have cost the owners their brand new boat.

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Couldn't agree more. And I say this as someone who makes a living taking WELL equipped boats into nasty weather. There is only one good reason to do so, and it isn't to simply get a boat from point A to point B. How could that gain possibly outweigh that risk?
 
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Originally posted by Capt. Bill1

http://www.sailfeed.com/2014/01/be-good-too-answering-critics/

Do these statements bother anybody else?

Because I find them rather disturbing.

"As for Hank’s perspective, he’s a professional delivery skipper. Taking brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather is a big part of that job, at least if you really want to make a living at it."

You would think as a professional his job would be to avoid taking "brand new lightly equipped boats into ****ty weather". As delivery captains isn't it our job to get the boat and crew there safely with little or no damage by not taking those kinds, or any kind for that matter, of boats out into ****ty weather if it can be avoided?

"Some have suggested he should have tried to persuade Gunther and Doris to hop down the coast to the Bahamas instead, but in doing that he would effectively be talking them out of hiring him"

!? Again as a professional should he not have purposed the safest option to the owners whether or not it cost him a job? Because in this case by not at least examining this option it may have cost the owners their brand new boat.

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His actions and comments are both disturbing.
Bill
 
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