Build yourself a boat and do a lap, crazy or not?

Told ya - 50th wave I think he's just tired of bailing water...

I doubt if he's going to stop. He wins the sypathy of people who gives him money for it. He also has something to prove and cannot give up. If nothing else he gets a lot of attention. People will buy his next book too...

 

After action picture,

More to be found at the SA forums, but this was the only one I saw that showed the actual problems.

K9

 

He has been towed out of Santa Cruz and is on his way back up the coast 80 miles to San Francisco.

K9

 

a small question? who did his welding? the ships cat? or a blind man on 'speed'?

 

I think thats not so much a weld as it is steel fatigue causing the 2 parts to fuse together a bit.

 

Kay9's right. Allu welding doesn't like flexing. Almost any other kind of joint there would have worked better than bringing the four pipe ends together like that.

 

He obviously doesn't have much experience with Al, or doesn't value his life.
Those weld junctions and the X frames transfering all the load back to a small area on the main hull. The moment of the amas to a point with minimal gussets. It looks like a shipwrecked mariners attempt at getting home.
I hate being negative,but I wouldn't sleep..
I don't think it will even reach the SO.

 

Damn!! I thought I was the only one planning that.

 

Back to a serious vein ... the sacriest photos are of that Lexan hatch: A. designed to be so close to the waterline, and B. the boat's being so far off design marks that the hatch is submerged.

The other telling sight is of the after half of the vessel, with lines a mess and half of them dragging in the water. I've seen photos of exhausted amateur sailors completing long solo voyages whose vessels looked like that, but very few who were that disorganized at the beginning of the voyage.

The quotes from the review of his book hint a bit more at this guy's character. Possibly not such a nice guy after all. He seems, from his own words, to be more of a passive-aggressive manipulator. His first venture was financed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans (his word) from friends and relatives, and he was surprised and disapointed that they expected the loans to be paid back; he was appalled when American Express expected to be paid; he criticized the seamanship of the Coast Guard he called to come out and rescue him.

Yup. I take back my "nice guy" evaluation. This guy refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He'll be asking for help again, guaranteed.

 

Can you image the look on an owners face if you designed and built him a boat, and on launching day the waterline was a foot and a half lower then predicted!!

Stilll wating for an update on his trip back to San Fran. No word yet.

K9

 

I love that hatch!! Just can't wait for the day the boat leans over and he opens it for ventilation (he WILL you know it!!), then back on even keel!! Te he that'll be fun!!!..............who'll he blame? won't be HIS fault of course!

 

Safie,

Thanks for the best laugh of the day (even after reading all of Fanie's)!

 

David was looking up the definition of "Escape hatch" and the wind blew his book to "scuttle hatch" page.

 

Charlie, which software are you using ?

 

Vaporware 10.2????