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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:03:55 AM EST
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Life is a bitch. Hope they had insurance on the boat. Now they will be "In Need" for months to come sucking $$$ and favors from everyone around... |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:06:30 AM EST
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No boat insurance, claim they have no savings (what were you going to live off of?) and really don't know how to sail. Sinking on the first full day was probably a blessing. Vs. This week on "Mysteries of the Deep" ... A Young Couple sailed confidently out into the ocean in their newly renovated sailboat... They were never seen alive again... BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:07:48 AM EST
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Those people needed more Captain Ron.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:08:15 AM EST
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Young and stupid, pretty sure they'll try it again. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:13:02 AM EST
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How the hell were those idiots planning to eat with 90 bucks to their names? |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:14:29 AM EST
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Along my walk to elementary and middle school I walked past a house where a guy built a sailboat himself in a tight metal carport. I estimate the boat was 40ish feet and stood quite tall inside the homemade metal building it was in. We would sometimes see this guy working and stop and chat with him. He always said when it was done he was moving aboard and sailing the world. The boat was far nicer than the house it sat behind. Then one day after I was out of high school there was a bunch of activity going on around his house, power company, huge rig and funny looking trailer jammed onto this little lot. They elevated the power lines and hauled that thing out into the daylight and off they went. It creeped down the road behind the kind of rig you see moving a house. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:16:57 AM EST
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:22:31 AM EST
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Sounds like fun, wasn't even a very expensive lesson.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:23:07 AM EST
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It was a bad choice... But still better than selling timeshares in Breck.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:23:47 AM EST
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:28:13 AM EST
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the keel is in the pictures. or is that the top half?
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:30:40 AM EST
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I love it when people afraid to take a risk or go outside of their comfort zone criticize people who do. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:32:39 AM EST
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I wonder if they had a survey done on the boat before they purchased?
Seems not, if the keel broke that easily. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:38:14 AM EST
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I love it when people afraid to take a risk or go outside of their comfort zone criticize people who do. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:39:33 AM EST
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:41:30 AM EST
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I love it when people afraid to take a risk or go outside of their comfort zone criticize people who do. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:41:40 AM EST
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First rule of gambling... Don't do it unless you have a backup plan or a lot of money to blow.
It sounds like they had neither. And a 28 foot boat for blue water sailing? No sailing experience? I wonder what would have happened when they had their first hard blow with big waves... They're lucky they had their mishap somewhere they could be rescued. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:42:01 AM EST
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Young people today want to live the same life as people that have worked their entire life to live that way.
Snowflakes want to live the retirement life all their life without earning the actual retirement. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:42:52 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @skillshot What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:50:56 AM EST
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"But it looked so easy on instagram"
Looks like it is #vanlife for them. Minus the van. 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:52:16 AM EST
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:54:20 AM EST
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The best part is the guys "rat race" that he was sick of involved him selling fucking timeshares in Colorado. I'm sure he'll be back to selling Amway to geriatrics in Tampa or perhaps working as a used car salesman while the g/f waitresses at Wing House in no time.
When I was 25 I was working overseas supporting OEF/OIF and I netted more in one month then they had total in that boat lol. I don't think they realize how lucky they were sinking within cell phone distance of land to call SeaTow because I doubt that boat had a radio on it. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:55:04 AM EST
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@skillshot What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:55:47 AM EST
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I love it when people afraid to take a risk or go outside of their comfort zone criticize people who do. This is like buying a used Cessna 152, loading it up with fuel and luggage on a 100 degree day, hopping in with your wife, and saying "I can fly, how hard could it be?" And then wondering what went wrong when you end up a fireball of crumpled aluminum because you clipped the fence at the end of the runway. "Useful load? Density altitude? Climb performance? What's that? I thought you just pushed the throttle in and went!" 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:55:54 AM EST
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How the hell were those idiots planning to eat with 90 bucks to their names? |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 11:59:41 AM EST
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I was thinking waiting tables in one of the bigger cities. The hours suck but if you're good looking and a hard worker you can make good money. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:00:02 PM EST
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There are several decent (and at least one free) Marine oriented navigation apps for iOS, and Android. They had a cell phone. They had service. They had GPS.
Why weren't they using such if they weren't sure? I mean... yea, they should've paid more attention to the navigation aids around them and learned to use them properly. But a $50 app (at the high end) might have saved them. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:00:06 PM EST
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Twenty dollars is twenty dollars. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How the hell were those idiots planning to eat with 90 bucks to their names? 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:00:24 PM EST
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My bet is divorced by August. Free Spirits don't believe in such silly conventions. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:01:53 PM EST
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So many people try to achieve notoriety by doing shit like this, like the guy that sold everything to drive a Gallardo into the ground.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:01:56 PM EST
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They crashed, literally, within some of the busiest service industry locations in the St. Pete area. John's Pass is one giant service industry lol. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. What do you define as a "Service Industry Job?" I don't think they can save $1000 much less $10K in two months on minimum wage Flipping patties at Wendy's or Mopping Floors as a janitor. They now have to pay rent, food, find transportation... They have no phone, no fixed address or no transportation to get to a job. No way they come anywhere close to $10K saved in 2 months, Unless your definition of "Service Industry Jobs" involves her Dancing and Ho'ing... BIGGER_HAMMER
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:11:00 PM EST
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lmfao
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:15:41 PM EST
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:17:13 PM EST
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Bought a broke ass sail boat and it sunk .
I think I read that the broke ass boat was 49 years old . Damn . If you have ever lived along any coast you know that someone always has one for sale . And it seems that they had no idea about sailing much less old ass boats . gd |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:27:24 PM EST
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How the hell were those idiots planning to eat with 90 bucks to their names? Probably with a $10 pole they bought from Walmart. 
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:29:43 PM EST
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Capt. Marko Ramius: [quoting Christopher Columbus] 'And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.'
Jack Ryan: Welcome to the New World, Captain |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:35:16 PM EST
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So many people try to achieve notoriety by doing shit like this, like the guy that sold everything to drive a Gallardo into the ground. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:35:18 PM EST
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They were trying to follow in the footsteps of many other YouTube stars. Several of those have ended bad recently. One couple seemed to be doing things right by hiring a captain while they gain experience. Then the captain ran their boat into a closing drawbridge, totaled the boat, and then said it wasn't his fault. They pulled all their videos, I'm assuming due to a lawsuit against the captain. Another was that couple that docked in St. Martin right before the hurricane hit. Their boat is still at the bottom of the bay as far as I know. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxS3_tghsmY7NmygVq7uMiw/videos who are the drawbridge people |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:38:48 PM EST
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lol. They look exactly like you'd expect too.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:53:33 PM EST
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@swire who are the drawbridge people Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They were trying to follow in the footsteps of many other YouTube stars. Several of those have ended bad recently. One couple seemed to be doing things right by hiring a captain while they gain experience. Then the captain ran their boat into a closing drawbridge, totaled the boat, and then said it wasn't his fault. They pulled all their videos, I'm assuming due to a lawsuit against the captain. Another was that couple that docked in St. Martin right before the hurricane hit. Their boat is still at the bottom of the bay as far as I know. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxS3_tghsmY7NmygVq7uMiw/videos who are the drawbridge people https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFkC9XgixtSesp_BDhAUSpA There website is still up with limited information https://sailingsaltymermaid.com/ There is a paetron entry for their totaled boat. https://www.patreon.com/posts/totaled-boat-8318039 I was really looking forward to their adventures. They were doing everything right. They started from scratch, learning about boats, boat hunting, boat inspections, and fixing issues. They took time to prep the boat, learn about things, since they didn't have the experience they hired a captain to move the boat and to learn from. In the video where they hit the bridge Niki is on the side of the boat questioning the Captain on if she should be moving the boat towards the bridge. They were motoring, not under sail as they were in a channel. The captain just ignored her, said he had room, and the top of the mast hit full speed into the bridge. That destroyed the hull structure of the boat where the mast was anchored down. Then the captain claimed he was just following their orders, an obvious lie, said he was not responsible for the accident and then skipped town. I'm sure there are lawsuits flying every which direction which is why any content that could be used against them has been pulled. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 12:55:51 PM EST
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Well that was sad, hilarious, and dumb. I know exactly what the guy was thinking because I used to day dream of crazy ideas like that too. But somewhere along the way I grew up and realized life means you have to work. You have to make money. There is no easy out. Thinking they could just get on a boat with change in their pockets and start a new life adventure living on the seas was really short-sighted and foolish. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 1:04:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is nothing inherently wrong with selling all of your shit and traveling for a few years, but you have to actually... you know... know what the hell you're doing. Might as well sail in the dark with no experience in unfamiliar waters and a paper chart you can't read |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 1:07:57 PM EST
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They did it relatively young. They still get a chance to make more mistakes that can kill them.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 1:30:31 PM EST
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Quote Historymmmm that Brady, what a dreamboat
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Posted: 2/10/2018 1:40:38 PM EST
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Posted: 2/10/2018 1:53:12 PM EST
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If you have to ask big man, ya can't afford it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 2/10/2018 2:10:59 PM EST
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Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.
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Posted: 2/10/2018 3:19:53 PM EST
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Agree but not in two months....definitely a year. The news story acting like this is some big tragedy Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If it only cost them $10k to get going, they could get service industry jobs and bank $10k each in two months. Buy a new sailboat, get some lessons, be back on the water in June. |
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Posted: 2/10/2018 3:41:18 PM EST
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Posted: 2/10/2018 4:52:50 PM EST
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Laugh now but I bet they get a lot of money on that Gofundme page.
And they've got a good story to tell at the bar. |
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