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From: Ed Kelly (no email)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 13:40:14 EST
I am just getting a new computer set up after moving back to the boat
from Iowa last week and do not know if the list has shared this info
or not,
but just got it and figured most would have a big delete key if
necessary
Skip and Lydia are folks who many here may have followed on their
upgrade
to their Morgan, FLYING PIG. They went aground at midnite on the 6th.
Skip and Lydia aboard Flying Pig are safe, but it is a tragedy
nonetheless
after just leaving on their long planned retirement cruise from FT
Meyers
heading to the Keys. They had signed off on the 4th.
They were lifted off the boat by the Coast Guard at Content Key after
going aground and the ship is now on its side.
Sorry if Info below may have been posted already. I am just
getting the live aboard list up on a new computer after retiring
last week and moving from Iowa to our Allmand 30 PH for our own
journey. Its tragic about Flying Pig that they could plan for years and
upgrade for the last year only to end the journey within 48 hours of
taking off..... His web pages are referenced at the bottom with tons
of pictures
showing much of their good work on the boat over the last year +.
Ed Kelly
(below from Skip and Lydia from Morgan List I believe)
----------------------------
continue the dialogue going, as it's very comforting at the moment
but...
We are ashore, in the care of the Red Cross at the moment. Aside from
the
adrenalin rush and some bruises from being knocked around, we are
entirely
fine physically. Mentally we're more than bummed, as you can guess.
Until salvage operations commence, which due to the weather (the main
contributing factor to our blowing off course) won't be until tomorrow
morning at the earliest, we won't know the realities. At a minimum,
since
the boat will be taken to Marathon, we could use some temporary
hospitality
there.
There are definitely breaches in the starboard hull but the boat is very
high and dry at the moment, on its side. We don't know what the pounding
which caused a lot of flexing inside may have done to the bulkheads and
tabbing, but the reefer and settee and engine mounts were all moving
notably
- not a really good sign. If there is any good news, the water was so
shallow that it never got to the floorboards, even with the very severe
heel, and when I went around shutting the through-hulls, I never got my
hands wet. So, with any luck, the damage is mostly above the water line,
presumed somewhat simpler to address and less likely to affect the
integrity
of the hull. None the less, it's certain we'll be some months, if ever,
before we are back aboard, our only home, with every possession in the
world, having given away our car the day we left.
At any event, we can still be reached via email, when we have access,
which
will persist until tonight, at the Red Cross, and then at the Days
Inn in
KWW, we expect, where we'll be for the next three days. After that,
we're
truly homeless (does being in the RC or a Days Inn relieve us from
homelessness? The boat was our entire world - our home and every single
possession)...
In any case, thank you for your prayers and thoughts. We're
physically well,
and mental basket cases, though we are managing to get things done.
More as
we know more. Feel free to pass this around to other lists on which we
participate, as you may be aware if you're on them, too, from having
seen
our posts in those. Right now we're a bit busy to do that ourselves...
L8R
Love from Skip and Lydia, Homeless...
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