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- The last edit is a jumble of remeniscences (excuse spelling!!) and not factual enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia. Interested to hear other views on this. Boatman 07:47, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. Not sure of the etiquette of moving something off an article page to the discussion page so I've just done it. If it's a major breach of etiquette then it can be restored. Here's the moved text, the personal narrative from 58.107.251.221:
There is an account of the last known contact with this vessel here: [1]. For the record, I served under the skipper who makes comment, Doug Meier, and I agree, while she did 'work' there was never the remotest danger of sinking. During the same passage, I shuffled to breakfast through a stew of diesel and salt water in the morning, the fuel spilled from the tank vents combined w/ bilge 'upflow' across the salon floor. We usually pumped clear by lunch. We made the passage to Bermuda under similar conditions, and had to douse sail at 4AM one day, the triatic squirting water as it spun tight. Remember it was a gravel boat at one point, about nine inches of wood between you and the sea. Had an inner and outer hull. This boat didn't even start to perform under 40 knots. It was made for the North Sea, a baltic trader. Though I loved her, she was a pig under 15. A real snow plow. Best we made was I think 11.5 or so knots under sail.