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- From: siegrist@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Frank Siegrist)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Solo Sailor Missing
- Message-ID: <27646@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:27:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.023157.4425@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <1992Nov18.045043.104609@watson.ibm.com>
- Reply-To: siegrist@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Frank Siegrist)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.boats, dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine) writes:
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- >From a little digging I've done, the weather looks to have been fairly
- >un-interesting, with the exception of a couple of cold fronts which
- > More stuff deleted
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- Angus Phillips of the Washighton Post had a whole column on this lost
- boat in Tuesdays paper. He showed a diagram that indicated that between
- the position of Mike Plant's (right name?) contact with a freighter
- and the EPIRB signal would be a course that intersected a hurricane
- moving North in the Atlantic. Based on other notes here I don't think his
- chances are very good. From the article, he was spending all of his
- availible time looking for money and very little in boat preparation,
- nor was he getting any experience handling the boat, depending on other
- people to move it from Annapolis to New York, etc. while he was on
- the radio/telephone. According to Phillips, in his last communication
- Plant indicated that if he couldn't get his electrical problems fixed he
- was going to turn around and head for Nova Scotia, so maybe the search
- is in the wrong area. We can only hope so.
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- Frank
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