Dinghy on the run

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Plockton this week. Our Avon dinghy was tied to the stern overnight during a gale and had gone by morning.

We searched all day and found it safe and sound 7 miles away on a beach at Loch Carron.

Many thanks to Loch Carron sailing club who helped us get ashore to retrieve it.

Is 7 miles a world record??
 
Pretty sure I read recently about a shipwreck off South Africa...and one of her lifeboats turned up later on a beach in Australia.
 
mainsail1 said:
Plockton this week. Our Avon dinghy was tied to the stern overnight during a gale and had gone by morning.

We searched all day and found it safe and sound 7 miles away on a beach at Loch Carron.

Many thanks to Loch Carron sailing club who helped us get ashore to retrieve it.

Is 7 miles a world record??
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Well done finding it intact and without complications!
I found a dory we lost one Autumn years ago. High tide and gales on Arran - it fetched up at Seamill, south of Fairlie on the Ayrshire coast. Unfortunately I had to fight off a scrote who "claimed salvage " as he got to the beach a few minutes ahead of me...
I did the actual recovery.
I vowed in future to simply help anybody unfortunate to be in a similar situation.. Unless you actively rescue something "big" , I reckon it's the only moral choice...
 
The trimaran "Great American" was abandoned about 400 nm WEST of Cape Horn, and subsequently was wrecked on South Georgia, over 1,000 nm EAST of Cape Horn. So, she drifted unattended 1400 nm, or more. If South Georgia hadn't been in the way, doubtless she'd have kept going; there's nothing else at that latitude!

On a far smaller scale, in the early 60s we had our inflatable tender nicked from our boat at South Ferriby. My Dad, brother and I ran along the bank of the Ancholme as far as Horkstow Bridge to catch them - they abandoned ship when they saw us coming! I suppose it was about a mile
 
The thing that amazed me was that the dinghy missed a number of Islands and even managed a 90 degree dog leg in the Strome narrows before blowing another 2 or 3 miles to the beach.
 
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