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TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

Or he could be water tight....like I said, there looks to be no listing. I've seen high dollar boats that come nowhere close to riding as level.

Jdpber · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:34 pm

he is level because he is sitting on the bottom .... also the boat is 30 something feet wide a pontoon would have to be FULL to make that SQUARE list.

rpengr · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:34 pm

Jdpber wrote:

he is level because he is sitting on the bottom .... also the boat is 30 something feet wide a pontoon would have to be FULL to make that SQUARE list.

He is not sitting on the bottom, because in the pictures, you can see he is rotating with the wind. Staying parallel with the other boats in the anchorage.

GottWhat · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:58 pm

I am amazed she is still on the right side of the water.

Jdpber · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:31 am

rpengr wrote:

Jdpber wrote:

he is level because he is sitting on the bottom .... also the boat is 30 something feet wide a pontoon would have to be FULL to make that SQUARE list.

He is not sitting on the bottom, because in the pictures, you can see he is rotating with the wind. Staying parallel with the other boats in the anchorage.

you fail to see my sarcasm.. if you kew the history of this boat.. he has been stuck on the bay bottom a number of time.. that was what was supposed to be funny

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:19 pm

01/26/15 - MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

The Flyin' Hawaiian Takes Flight

January 26, 2015 – San Francisco Bay

There's something missing from Sausalito's Richardson Bay anchorage: the notorious Flyin' Hawaiian catamaran. Word around the docks is that Hot Rod Lane's home-built creation actually made it out the Golden Gate and headed south over the weekend.

Why is that news? Because Lane's 65-ft cat — which was launched in May 2013 after a three-year build process at San Rafael's Loch Lomond Marina — had been unsuccessful on all previous attempts to either sail or motor. And she'd dragged several times in different parts of the North Bay, once having to be rescued by the Coast Guard.

Designed and built by Lane, 53, and his son Michael Johnson, 29, without any professional help, the big cat's odd shape, 2-by-4-and-plywood construction and unconventional rig have made it the butt of many caustic comments on cruiser forums.

So where is Flyin' Hawaiian headed? Lane's original goal was to reach Hawaii and live aboard there at anchor. But conjecture around the Richardson Bay anchorage seems to be that she's heading to Southern Cal first.

The bottom line for Belvedere homeowners living adjacent to the anchorage is that there is now one less illegal liveaboard vessel to blight their view. And for the Richardson Bay Regional Authority, which oversees the anchorage, there's one less unnavigable vessel that might drag ashore and have to be removed at great taxpayer expense.

- latitude / andy

http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lec ... Mbyu_7F_Eh

TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

Good for him! Hope I'm not only one on here pulling for him to make it.

Seems it is somewhat navigable so they got that wrong. It didn't pile up on shore like some of the other boats in latest major storm....and I have drug up in bay in an alweld flat bottom several times. As far as the illegal part, what was illegal about the vessel? Major cleanup expense, give me a damn break.

The CG saves and rescues dumb asses on a daily basis, just hope they never need to save mine. Where's the article about those who had their boats sink in the well advertised and advised storm....or...the cleanup needed after all the fools left their trailerable boats in the water when hurricanes hit the Gulf, Florida and East Coast.

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:10 pm

News Release

COAST GUARD RESCUES 5 PEOPLE FROM SINKING SAILING VESSEL OFF THE COAST OF MONTEREY

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard rescued five people from a sinking 65-foot sailing vessel approximately 120 miles off the Monterey coast, Saturday.

At approximately 8 a.m. Saturday, the 11th Coast Guard District Command Center received a distress signal from a personal locator beacon. A C17 transport aircraft under Oakland Center Control, flying at approximately 5,000 feet, visually identified the sailing vessel in the vicinity of the alert location and confirmed that the sailing vessel Flyin’ Hawaiian was taking on water.

The Coast Guard responded with one Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento HC-130H Hercules aircrew. The crew was able to contact and divert the Aqualeader, a tank ship that was 24 miles from the sailing vessel's location. Though unable to remove anyone off the vessel, the Aqualeader assisted by blocking seas and wind for the Flyin’ Hawaiian.

The Coast Guard launched one Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco MH-65 helicopter rescue crew and one MH-65 helicopter rescue crew from Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles.

Both helicopter crews successfully rescued the five people from the sinking sailing vessel.
All five people were transported to shore with no reported injuries.

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2454962/

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:42 pm

Someone posted this on SA. Could they have actually been trying to make it to Hawaii?

Quote:

http://www.marinetra...5/shipid:755280

Looking at the path of the ship that got diverted I estimate that the FH went down (or abandoned) at:

N 35 deg 43'49.65"
W 123 deg 37' 05.39"

plus or minus...

Which fits with the CG news report of being offshore by 120 miles.

alex8q4 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:26 am

To all who cheered him on.... You were wrong and he is just a fool.

What he will learn from this experience is nothing at all.

Some people just can't be helped.

TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

Here's another group that sailed in a POS boat made in a garage....oh, wait it was a pos expensive yacht owned by a desk jocky executive.

By Staff, Associated Press JANUARY 31, 2015

MANTEO, N.C. — The

U.S. Coast Guard says

it rescued five people

from a sailboat after

the boat's mast broke

about 200 miles off the

coast of North

Carolina.

A statement from the Coast Guard

says watchstanders at a command

center in Portsmouth, Virginia, were

notified Friday afternoon that the

55-foot catamaran Rainmaker

suffered a broken mast in 40 mph

winds and 13-foot seas. It occurred

about 200 miles southeast of Cape

Hatteras, North Carolina.

A helicopter crew was able to hoist

all five boaters from the damaged

sailboat. The Coast Guard says the

boaters were taken to Dare County

Regional Airport in Manteo in good

condition. WRAL TV reports:

Recommended: 13 survival stories from around the world

A Coast Guard rescue ship

arrived at the damaged vessel

at about 4:05 p.m., but the 350-

foot cargo ship was unable to

come alongside the Rain

Maker.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter

arrived at about 5 p.m. and

hoisted all five people from the

water.

“The mission today was

challenging for our crews due

to the distance from shore and

the weather conditions,” Petty

Officer 1st Class Allen Facenda,

an operations specialist in

Portsmouth who worked on

the case, said in a statement.

“The crew we rescued had a

registered and up-to-date

emergency position indicating

radio beacon that told us their

exact position. All five people

were wearing life jackets and

were prepared to abandon

their vessel in a life raft. We

were happy to get there before

that became necessary.”

TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

Here's another group that sailed in a POS boat made in a garage....oh, wait it was a pos expensive yacht owned by a desk jocky executive.

By Staff, Associated Press JANUARY 31, 2015

MANTEO, N.C. — The

U.S. Coast Guard says

it rescued five people

from a sailboat after

the boat's mast broke

about 200 miles off the

coast of North

Carolina.

A statement from the Coast Guard

says watchstanders at a command

center in Portsmouth, Virginia, were

notified Friday afternoon that the

55-foot catamaran Rainmaker

suffered a broken mast in 40 mph

winds and 13-foot seas. It occurred

about 200 miles southeast of Cape

Hatteras, North Carolina.

A helicopter crew was able to hoist

all five boaters from the damaged

sailboat. The Coast Guard says the

boaters were taken to Dare County

Regional Airport in Manteo in good

condition. WRAL TV reports:

Recommended: 13 survival stories from around the world

A Coast Guard rescue ship

arrived at the damaged vessel

at about 4:05 p.m., but the 350-

foot cargo ship was unable to

come alongside the Rain

Maker.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter

arrived at about 5 p.m. and

hoisted all five people from the

water.

“The mission today was

challenging for our crews due

to the distance from shore and

the weather conditions,” Petty

Officer 1st Class Allen Facenda,

an operations specialist in

Portsmouth who worked on

the case, said in a statement.

“The crew we rescued had a

registered and up-to-date

emergency position indicating

radio beacon that told us their

exact position. All five people

were wearing life jackets and

were prepared to abandon

their vessel in a life raft. We

were happy to get there before

that became necessary.”

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:49 am

From SA:

Quote:

Using 35.75, -123.62 as coords from where the Aqualeader's track slows to 1.6 knots, I get 100 miles from Monterey, 157 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, 161 miles from the Sausalito anchorage (~20 miles/day? less than 1 mph), and 171 miles from where the FH was launched at Lock Lomond marina:

alex8q4 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:51 am

The crew of second boat you refer put it themselves at risk when they elected to leave port. The risk they took was related to the weather in this case... So severe indeed that it ripped the rigging off the boat.

I guess making it to the Miami boat show on time was worth the risk.

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:17 pm

Here is someone's post that sums it up in my book:

Quote:

This thing ended in one of the two possible ways all knew it would -- sinking on its first voyage and all rescued; sinking on its first voyage with loss of life.

I am all for being able to choose your own path and not letting the nannies of the world keep you from attempting a dream, but that is not the same as a delusional person spending bags of mostly other people's money (ie. his mother) being so pig-headed as to build a vessel intended for ocean cruising using below-standard house construction methods and materials with no regard to centuries of boatbuilding precedent, refusing the advice and help of those who know better --- then placing four other lives at risk on the "boat," placing the lives of several Coast Guard rescuers at risk and costing the rest of us hundreds of thousands of dollars (TWO helicopters and another aircraft) and a private, merchant vessel costs in time and fuel. This is not someone boldly and bravely going forth in life dancing to the beat of his own drum. This is a person who for reasons of mental delusion or mental illness, writes checks with his life that others are forced to cash. He is the exact opposite of an independent spirit.

I would not be a bit surprised if this whole end scenario was a planned event. After coming to the realization that his pile of Home Depot purchases was never going to go anywhere, and after finding out what it was going to cost him in fees and fines to get that thing out of the water and into a landfill, I think he cut the lines and floated out with the tide (with the help of his little outboard), waited until things started to fall apart, set off the e-pirb and let others once again pay for his mistakes.

I see nothing noble in any of this, and I am amazed that anyone does.

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