ACK.net – Coast Guard crews responded to an offshore distress call from a 43-foot sailing vessel that was disabled and adrift in today’s winter storm about 150 miles south of Nantucket.
The operator of the Sedona reported the vessel was without power and its sails were torn in the storm. He requested he and his father be removed from the vessel due to the degrading weather.
Watchstanders at the command center directed an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod to launch. Faced with worsening storm conditions, the aircrew launched successfully, but due to ice and low visibility the HC-144 Ocean Sentry support plane was unable to launch.
The two men told the Coast Guard they had purchased the sailboat on eBay and were sailing it from Rhode Island to Australia, petty officer LaNola Stone told WBZ-TV.
OK, let’s start with the obligatory “thank god everyone is alright and made it home safely”.
Now, with that out of the way, these two kangaroos should be banned from everything. America, the ocean, Ebay… EVERYTHING. It’s not exactly a high risk proposition, I don’t think America will lose the cure for cancer by banning these two MENSA members. While we’re at it we should probably neuter the son so he can’t make the tragic mistake his father made by procreating. This bloodline needs to end and it needs to end now.
Call me an insensitive asshole if you want, but if you have enough money to buy a 42′ sailboat, combined with big enough balls to sail it from Rhode Island to Australia in February, AND you are too stupid to look at the weather and know you are sailing into a storm that everyone has been talking about for a week, then you are a moron simple and plain, and I have no pity for you.
I hope they make these dingo fuckers pay the entire Coast Guard bill for their rescue, and I want them to apologize personally to every single family member of all the Coasties whose lives were put at risk because they have more PayPal money than they do common sense. Darwin is rolling over in his grave right now, how are we supposed to evolve as a species if we keep rescuing douchebags like this?
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Absolute Madness…..Jeopardizing the lives of those brave airmen …….for what!…..God does watch out for people…..
OK…the passengers (not "sailors" which implies common sense and knowledge of sailing) are safe, is there a biggish sailboat drifting about near shipping lanes?
Great commentary on these kooks. I wish natural selection had done its due diligence.
Great commentary on these kooks. I wish natural selection had done its due diligence.
Tom, I'm thinking the shit hole of a sailboat has sunk at this point.
I hope they had no insurance.
Why do we keeping interfering with "Natural Selection"? Nature is trying to "weed" them out, but like fools, we keep blowing the fluff off the dandelions into the wind and smiling like a little kid as the seeds float away to spawn somewhere else. I am glad they are okay though. At least they knew how to use a radio.
If not how to tell a seaworthy vessel from a hulk ready for the scrap heap or to ask someone who did as part of the purchase process. There is a rolling of eyes happening here.
These guys are idiots, no question. Nonetheless, if you read the article you will find out that they bought the boat for $10,000 they had no money, but they also had no navigational skills. Their planned path (west to east) would be impossible to sail on that boat anyway. So they were very lucky to have faltered so close to shore. As far as the CG goes, if you talk to any commander, you will hear that they like this experience. They don't mind it. So no need to apologize to the Coastie families.
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Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
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Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
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Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
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Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
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Mat 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
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Mat 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
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Mat 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mat 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Mat 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Mat 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Mat 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
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