this probably won't turn out well...

[pwd72s]

Depends on how well the pick up boat is equipped...but yes, in many cases like this, the yacht is simply abandoned. Sea conditions in "The roaring 40's" can be awesome...just picking her up can be perilous. Not sure, she may have even dipped into the 30's (lattitude)...even nastier the further south you go.

[KevinP73]

Do they even try to salvage the electronics?

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by crustychief

Well, it looks like the French picked her up.

holy crap! She should have waited for the pirates...

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by KevinP73

Do they even try to salvage the electronics?

If the boat is damaged enough for salt water to get in the cockpit, the electronics probably as good as gone anyway. The sea is a cruel environment for electronics.

But really, it's back to the sea conditions in that part of the world...takes good seamanship to get her cute little buns off that yacht without damaging your own vessel...especially when she has a broken mast dragging...

(edit) Trying to put this in car guy terms...imagine the big quake happening in L.A. with everything shaking, you pulling a young lady from a GT3 sliding into the abyss...will you take the time to remove parts from the car that is doomed, greatly risking your own neck doing so?

Wait for the pirates...HOOT! Being a French vessel, there is probably a young crew aboard willing to give help and loving comfort...

Even with nothing salvaged, this is a very happy ending.

[crustychief]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Depends on how well the pick up boat is equipped...but yes, in many cases like this, the yacht is simply abandoned. Sea conditions in "The roaring 40's" can be awesome...just picking her up can be perilous. Not sure, she may have even dipped into the 30's (lattitude)...even nastier the further south you go.

They will put a " hazard to navigation" notice out to mariners. Eventually someone will find it, if it doesn't sink, and it will become their legal property.
When I was off the coast of Haiti in the early 90's, we would rescue the Haitians then sink their rafts or boats.

[tcar]

Water is rough there in Winter!

One of the rescue boat crew was tossed overboard during the rescue, so they had to rescue him first.

Glad she's OK.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by nostatic

holy crap! She should have waited for the pirates...

It's OK. They won't be driving a Renault.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

It's OK. They won't be driving a Renault.

Yeah, but Polansky might be on board.

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

What about those boats made from fiberglass with a foam sandwich liner? (Boston Whaler?)

Unless you are able to cut the various cables (so that the mast slides overboard and sinks) a de-masted mast can cause an enormous amount of damage to a fiberglass hull in 40 foot seas. Sometimes that's almost impossible—depending on the rigging and the manner in which the mast broke. In that case, not only is the whole frigging mess almost impossible to tow, but inherently unstable and dangerous.

[tcar]

The boat was rolling 90 degrees, or close to it, and a wave buried the mast underwater. Snapped it off.

So I read.

You'd have water in the cabin, everywhere, in/on everything.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by crustychief

They will put a " hazard to navigation" notice out to mariners. Eventually someone will find it, if it doesn't sink, and it will become their legal property.
When I was off the coast of Haiti in the early 90's, we would rescue the Haitians then sink their rafts or boats.

Latest:

American sailor Abby Sunderland's ill-fated yacht reappears off Australian coast after nearly a decade
By Ryan Gaydos

American Abby Sunderland's ill-fated yacht found after nearly a decade

A ghost vessel found overturned and drifting off the Australian coast belongs to teenage sailor Abby Sunderland, who was forced to abandon her boat during an ill-fated round-the-world attempt in the Indian Ocean nearly a decade ago. The barnacle-encrusted Wild Eyes was found drifting 12 miles from Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Abby Sunderland was just 16 when she attempted to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone and unassisted when her 40-foot yacht capsized and lost its mast in the waters between Africa and Australia on June 10, 2010. She was rescued two days later.

She said her “heart skipped a beat” when she learned her boat was discovered.

“It brought back memories — good and not so good — but it was neat to see it after so long,” Sunderland, now 25, said in a statement. “It looked a little creepy, that's to be expected after so long.”

The vessel was seen from the air by a tuna spotter plane, according to The Guardian. A police helicopter and two other fishing vessels investigated the boat and identified it as Sunderland’s.

Sunderland, a Marina del Rey, California, native, hoped that her video equipment would still be inside the vessel.

But the chances of that may have slipped away.

A police spokesman, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the boat had disappeared by Thursday and might have sunk.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by crustychief

The kind of parents that are confident in their parenting and confident in their child's abilities to handle it. 200 years ago 16 was old.

Not all that long ago...after retirement, one of dad's friends became a rock hound. Told of remembering seeing "apache tears", a teardrop shaped black obsidian prized as jewelry when he was 10 years old...so went back to that spot when in his early 70's and found them.

What was he doing at age 10? Driving a herd of horses his dad bought from Reno back to the ranch in Adin, California.

So yeah..it all depends on the 16 year old.

[tcar]

Here's the last pic, taken recently of the boat... almost 10 years after the 'event'... it has since disappeared... possibly sunk...
Abby is in her mid 20's now... a 'former sailor'...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/03/teens-round-the-world-yacht-wild-eyes-found-floating-eight-years-after-boat-abandoned

[SoCal911T]

Reminds me of this:

“The yacht that skipper Alex Thomson abandoned in the Southern Ocean in the 2006-2007 Velux 5 Oceans Race has been discovered on a remote South American beach”

“To get to the coast of Chile, the ‘Hugo Boss’ had to travel more than 20.000 km adrift, pushed by the wind and the currents, crossing the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and going [to] the south of countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, Australia and New Zealand.”

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/alex-thomsons-first-hugo-boss-yacht-found-after-10-years-17409

[flatbutt]

hmmmm… it stays afloat for 10 years and NOW it sinks?

[sc_rufctr]

That's amazing... Kangaroo Island is close to me!

[unclebilly]

Somehow I missed this back in 2010... I was about to become a new dad back then and was frantically trying to get my house finished up in addition to work and racing...

At 17, I was the skipper of my dads 37’ salmon troller / shrimp trawler. I fished off the west and north coasts of Vancouver Island at the time. 3 years later, I nearly sunk it off Torino on opening day of salmon season. We had taken the boat back from a crew that had leased it. We later discover d that they were using it for smuggling because an access panel had been removed underneath a checker which allowed it to fill with water in fairly light seas... a flotation compartment filled with water and it started to sit low in the stern. I was 20 at the time. I was rescued as well as the boat and 10 days later was back fishing again (my deckhand quit).

My experience was nothing like Abby’s but my point is that young people can do this, provided they aren’t raised on video games and non reality.

[unclebilly]

Oh and here is the other thing that shocks me... how were we able to find a 40’ boat adrift back in 2010 but not 2 much larger lost aircraft with much more sofisticated electronics in 2014?

Also why didn’t the beacons continue to locate the boat after the rescue? Were they just turned off when it was abandoned?

We had an epirb on one of our boats but at the time (late 80s / early 90s) these were pretty old technology.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

hmmmm… it stays afloat for 10 years and NOW it sinks?

Actually, now, they think it's drifted away and they can't find it again...
So probably didn't sink...

Occurs to me that the boat is just trying to get back home... it was designed and built in Australia.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Oh and here is the other thing that shocks me... how were we able to find a 40’ boat adrift back in 2010 but not 2 much larger lost aircraft with much more sofisticated electronics in 2014?

I'm not sure of what incidents you reference, but consider the following.

Lost aircraft generally are involved in a crash, the aircraft integrity is compromised.

The design parameters of the two objects are different, the boat is made to survive the ocean, the airplane is made to survive wind resistance.