dead Hilary Lister & other sailing nutjobs

[time 8,596]

I wouldn't classify him as a nutjob, but sailing solo across the Atlantic at age 75 doesn't seem the most sensible thing to do; however, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston plans exactly this.

[YoungWillz 21,033]

Ed Burnett, designer of the Royal Barge Gloriana for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, keen rower and owner of Burnett Yacht Design, discovered dead at 43. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3109173/Queen-s-jubilee-barge-architect-dead-home.html

[gcreptile 10,966]

Sadun Boro, the first Turk to sail the globe (yes, really) is dead at 87:

 

http://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/527257--first-turk-to-sail-the-globe-passes-away

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

Andrew Ashman, crew on one of the yachts in the current round the world race, got hit by a sail and fatally knocked out.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/round-world-yachtsman-andrew-ashman-6386868

[charon 4,943]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/04/elliot-willis-olympic-sailor-cancer

 

Elliot Willis out of the Olympic team as diagnosed with bowel cancer at 32.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Two intrepid amateur sailors, Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both in their seventies, have been rescued nine times so far in their quest to sail from Norway to the US. They have only made it as far as Cornwall and will need to rapidly improve upon their sailing skills if they are to make it across the Atlantic without further incident.

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

Two intrepid amateur sailors, Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both in their seventies, have been rescued nine times so far in their quest to sail from Norway to the US. They have only made it as far as Cornwall and will need to rapidly improve upon their sailing skills if they are to make it across the Atlantic without further incident.

 

 

Yeah, saw those dead pool friendly nutters on television tonight. Our kinda guys for sure, and one of them is partial to a smoke as well.

 

I think they need proper skipper, what's Hilary Lister doing this week?

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Here's an asshole (Paul Allen) and a yacht. Well done sir, you cunt.

SC

http://pagesix.com/2016/01/27/microsoft-co-founders-162m-yacht-wrecks-coral-reef/

[En Passant 3,741]

Heh, kind of hard to call oneself any kind of conservationist/environmentalist whilst blundering about in a 300 foot floating gin palace and that's before you start wiping out coral reefs.

[time 8,596]

Andrew Ashman, crew on one of the yachts in the current round the world race, got hit by a sail and fatally knocked out.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/round-world-yachtsman-andrew-ashman-6386868

40-year-old Briton Sarah Young who was crew member of Round the World race yacht IchorCoal has died after she was swept overboard by a wave

Same race, same boat.

 

On sky & BBC.

[YoungWillz 21,033]

 

Andrew Ashman, crew on one of the yachts in the current round the world race, got hit by a sail and fatally knocked out.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/round-world-yachtsman-andrew-ashman-6386868

40-year-old Briton Sarah Young who was crew member of Round the World race yacht IchorCoal has died after she was swept overboard by a wave

Same race, same boat.

 

On sky & BBC.

 

 

To be buried at sea. Could have saved an hour looking for the body.

[Toast 16,131]

 

 

Andrew Ashman, crew on one of the yachts in the current round the world race, got hit by a sail and fatally knocked out.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/round-world-yachtsman-andrew-ashman-6386868

40-year-old Briton Sarah Young who was crew member of Round the World race yacht IchorCoal has died after she was swept overboard by a wave

Same race, same boat.

 

On sky & BBC.

 

 

To be buried at sea. Could have saved an hour looking for the body.

 

 

I thought that when John Kennedy Jr crashed his plane.

They had the US Navy out for days looking for his body, and after they found it he was buried at sea.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Time for my user name to regain its original meaning again... Yet another mad Australian woman attempts a world record solo voyage: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-22/sailor-attempts-world-record-to-circumnavigate-antarctica/8201750

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

An Australian woman named Lisa Blair who was trying to circumnavigate Antarctica alone and unassisted now needs assistance:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-04/sailor-lisa-blair-attempting-antarctica-world-record-in-distress/8413054

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

If we take this thread back to the start Hilary Lister has regained some feeling - was actually reported last year but I only Googled it a few minutes ago via a link from her site: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/quadriplegic-yachtswoman-who-sailed-around-9205360

[YoungWillz 21,033]

Death Notice for DDP pick yachtsman Edward Allcard, aged 102. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=edward-allcard&pid=186288537

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Allcard

[time 8,596]

On 4/2/2016 at 01:15, time said:

On 9/5/2015 at 16:10, maryportfuncity said:

Andrew Ashman, crew on one of the yachts in the current round the world race, got hit by a sail and fatally knocked out.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/round-world-yachtsman-andrew-ashman-6386868

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40-year-old Briton Sarah Young who was crew member of Round the World race yacht IchorCoal has died after she was swept overboard by a wave

Three-up, as Briton Simon Speirs is swept overboard and drowns.

https://news.sky.com/story/british-yachtsman-simon-speirs-60-dies-in-round-the-world-race-11134029

[charon 4,943]

Had been going to tip up Duncan Hutchinson last year but forgot.

 

He's from Lochinver and was building a rowing boat to sail from New York to home, saw it and went 'ooooft'.

 

Started this week, lasted a day then rescued and boat adrift, but the good news is it is now found and he's going again lol.

 

Plus in the same week another mad Scots fucker Niall Iain MacDonald is trying for the 3rd time from down the coast to Stornoway. Rudder broke but coastguard got him going again 500 miles out.

 

Both Cup material.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44411354

 

 

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Whenever I come across North Atlantic rowers I'm minded of Mylène Paquette who was fortunate to have a little ship come to her aid.

 

 

 

[charon 4,943]

Don't get me  wrong Cat, I like being out in rough weather, but with an engine at my arse, and even then in the wee boats I'm in, a 2 metre swell makes me sweat like Z in a mosque.

 

Wafi's are known as Wind Assisted Fucking Idiots, rowers in the deep are totally insane.

[Boudicca 702]

Scottish sailors.

 

Not crazy at all.

 

 

 

[charon 4,943]

I have been on the scrapheap in the Minch.

 

Bar was fucking immense.

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Tony Bullimore, sailor whose survival at sea for four days in an upturned boat was a major news story back in the day (and saw him forever immortalised in an I'm Alan Patridge gag), dead at 79.

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

34 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Tony Bullimore, sailor whose survival at sea for four days in an upturned boat was a major news story back in the day (and saw him forever immortalised in an I'm Alan Patridge gag), dead at 79.

 

 

Reality check for the silly season - he made the hourly headlines on Radio Four (doubt that would have happened in a week when parliament were at each other's throats

[charon 4,943]

This might as well go in here too.

 

Alene Duerk at 98.

 

 

Was the US Navy's first wifie Admiral.

 

http://www.dailycourier.com/news/2018-07-31/News/Navys_first_female_admiral_has_died.html