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From: Ahmet (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 11:11:37 EDT
That was an errouneus report which was corrected later
They did leave Newport
Ahmet
jrjrjrouse2000 <> wrote:
Well, David, I am very confused by all the statements being made
about this incident. Originally, I thought Ahmet said that they had
left Newport enroute to Europe and he wondered why they did not turn
around with the bad weather.
But the link that Ahmet later provided was:
http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20060616_boat16.1d7de59.html
"The boat, Free Spirit, was heading from Europe to Newport when it
ran into
trouble about 200 nautical miles south of Halifax, where seas were
reported to
be 23 to 30 feet and the winds 50 to 90 knots, the Coast Guard said."
As you can see, that article says heading from Europe to Newport. I
haven't looked at a chart, but if they were 200NM south of Halifax,
then I assumed that they were closer to US or Canada than they would
be to Europe.
Judy
--- In , dlm48 at dot dot dot wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 20/06/2006 18:57:28 GMT Daylight Time,
> sailingjudy at dot dot dot writes:
>
> Ahmet,
>
> One of the news articles you have quoted states that they were
> enroute to Newport from Europe, so they were nearing the end of
> their voyage. Maybe they were overtired and that affected their
> critical thinking. We don't know what their trip was like during
> the few days before this experience.
>
>
>
> OOOPS they were going tooooooooo Europe
>
> regards
>
> David
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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