Missing yachtswoman in South west.

According to one report the broker is quoted as saying she left without taking the paperwork with her. If this is true she was in a tearing hurry.
 
TamarMike said:
Sadly I very much fear that your last sentence may be very pertinent given all the facts do far. Apparently Coastguard officers are conducting shoreline searches so it seems they may be thinking along the same lines.
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The lifeboats are out and SAR, caught a bit of a news flash on Pirate radio that wreckage has been sighted, but not were.

Brian
 
Her husband in Bideford was interviewed by the TV media this morning. He says he's not at all concerned for her safety, and that she is ' a very independent person'. She may, therefore, have changed her sail plan, and gone to the Scillies, or even towards France. In any event, she has been foolhardy not to have (1) kept in touch with her family by mobile, and (2) not notified the Coastguard of her passage plan, and kept a VHF listening watch.

Hopefully she will be found safe and sound, but it's not looking hopeful after all this time.
 
prv said:
So what? The licensing is more liberal than marine VHF, which was your point.

Pete
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OK, you win! I'd forgotten them, to be honest. :o

It does raise a useful point, though - there are actually THREE licenses involved in radio equipment; the two we usually think of (ship's and users'), and also "type approval". In the case of the PMR, the arduous bits that restrict their usefulness are in the type approvals. A PMR with the power and range of a VHF would not get type approval for sale as a PMR, and could not be used under the licensing arrangements for a PMR.
 
Appledore said:
Her husband in Bideford was interviewed by the TV media this morning. He says he's not at all concerned for her safety, and that she is ' a very independent person'. She may, therefore, have changed her sail plan, and gone to the Scillies, or even towards France. In any event, she has been foolhardy not to have (1) kept in touch with her family by mobile, and (2) not notified the Coastguard of her passage plan, and kept a VHF listening watch.

Hopefully she will be found safe and sound, but it's not looking hopeful after all this time.
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It is, at least, irresponsible - by not reporting in, she has triggered a massive search operation that is diverting resources.
 
A1Sailor said:
If her point of shore contact is not concerned for her safety, who raised the alarm?:confused:
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The reports talked about the alarm being raised by "family members" - that would cover a husband, but perhaps she has children who are a bit less cavalier about her safety.
 
A1Sailor said:
If her point of shore contact is not concerned for her safety, who raised the alarm?:confused:
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+1 its a hundred and twenty miles if she has the time why would she do it in one which would involve pushing strong tides there are quite a lot of potential stopping places depending on weather .

Still hope she is ok.
 
BREAKING: Yacht debris found at Sennen in hunt for missing yachtswoman Ona Unwin.

DEBRIS thought to be from the yacht belonging to a 65-year-old woman who disappeared after leaving Mousehole on Saturday has been found washed up on Sennen beach.

Photographs of the debris are currently being analysed by coastguards in Falmouth to see whether it belongs to Seagair, a 31ft yacht skippered by Ona Unwin from Bideford.
 
maby said:
The reports talked about the alarm being raised by "family members" - that would cover a husband, but perhaps she has children who are a bit less cavalier about her safety.
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Agreed. As soon as one person raises concern, I guess a search needs to be mounted. At present they have the advantage of daylight...
 
Sennen is just round the corner from Mousehole just over an hour away with a favourable tide. Presume if the wreckage is Seagair then that must have happened early Sat evening. Sennen is not what I'd call a port of refuge by any manner of means.
 
jimi said:
Sennen is just round the corner from Mousehole just over an hour away with a favourable tide. Presume if the wreckage is Seagair then that must have happened early Sat evening. Sennen is not what I'd call a port of refuge by any manner of means.
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Aye, that!

Speculating, of course, someone heading out west from Mousehole towards the last of the daylight, under engine, would like as not keep relatively close in. I seem to recall there are scores of lobster/crab pot lines along there..... and an entanglement in the prop could well mean insufficient time to sort anything out before being set on.

"There but for the grace...." :eek:
 
jimi said:
Sennen is just round the corner from Mousehole just over an hour away with a favourable tide. Presume if the wreckage is Seagair then that must have happened early Sat evening. Sennen is not what I'd call a port of refuge by any manner of means.
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Quite. I wonder if she fell ill.
 
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