[Rhodes22-list] Oceans going Rhodes

Christine Allison sailnut@asan.com
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:42:52 -0400


. < I hope the movie proves that he was just that
> damn good a sailor and simply got unlucky.>

>From what I saw he was living aboard the boat and decided to sail to
Catalina Island.  Somehow he got dismasted and drifted for four months.

Questions...

1.  No one seems to have missed him... WHY.
2. What led to the dismasting?

I was fascinated to read that he had only seen one other vessel the entire
time he was adrift.

Richard Smith