Missing yachtswoman in South west.

prv said:
One who has no interest in sailing?

Nobody would think it odd if a wife had driven her husband to collect the boat, and then driven home to wait for him. What's the difference here? Couples in which the wife loves sailing and the husband does not seem to be less common, but they do exist (my parents, for one).

Pete
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NOT TRUE!!

See the quote below from the Yacht Brokers:

"She said: "They were just a nice middle-aged couple who were looking for a nice boat to do some coastal cruising in"

Which to me suggests that he was also interested in sailing if they were looking to coastal cruise together?

The program which she appears in gives the impression that she was waiting for a divorce settlement to come through. The program was aired in 2011, so maybe that settlement never came through? As she had pawned her bracelet "several times" to buy items, could there be a scam here somewhere with the boat?

If all is above board and the lady has gone missing, then sure, commisorations to her new husband and her family. Never a nice thing to have reported when a person just disappears without trace.

Very bad press though for the sailing community as a whole. Wasn't it only a few months ago a sailor who purchased a used boat and set out to sea had to be rescued twice by the CG and was badly injured when he came to grief the second time?
 
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jimi said:
Sigh, that's not the facts

She bought the boat in Falmouth on Thursday, sailed it from there to Mousehole, left there on Saturday evening. The warning seems to have been from a local fisherman who said "I would'nt go round there at night" She said "i'll be fine"

That's the facts as far as I can ascertain (oh and the weather was F4 W or NW decreasing.
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That's slightly different from what I've read in the meja! ...Casts a slightly different light on things.
 
mickywillis said:
NOT TRUE!!

See the quote below from the Yacht Brokers:

"She said: "They were just a nice middle-aged couple who were looking for a nice boat to do some coastal cruising in"

Which to me suggests that he was also interested in sailing if they were looking to coastal cruise.

The program which she appears in gives the impression that she was waiting for a divorce settlement to come through. The program was aired in 2011, so maybe that settlement never came through? As she had pawned her bracelet "several times" to buy items, could there be a scam here somewhere with the boat?
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:confused: Eh? Try reading the thread & a few of the links before accusing the poor missing lady as a scammer. She had just remarried her husband a few days earlier. This could even have been a wedding present to her.
 
jimi said:
Sigh, that's not the facts

She bought the boat in Falmouth on Thursday, sailed it from there to Mousehole, left there on Saturday evening. The warning seems to have been from a local fisherman who said "I would'nt go round there at night" She said "i'll be fine"

That's the facts as far as I can ascertain (oh and the weather was F4 W or NW decreasing.
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We were advised not to leave Douglas on IOM once by a fisherman with many years experience on fishing boats. We were absolutely fine because we were on a decent size yacht with a good keel etc. His advice was based on the fact that in a fishing boat you get bounced about like a cork.
Different experience gives different results, I agree that no conclusions can be drawn from the facts so far.

That said, adding to the speculation (and when I did that passage we were not close in nor in the dark) could she have just turned too soon? Sennen Cove is on a sticky out bit so it's possible she saw this, turned in and hit something?
 
This is terribly sad. The decision to take an untried boat without out a shakedown sail is reckless. A few years ago if I remember correctly a man was lost when he sailed with a new owner from the west country east. I think he was lost in Lyme Bay when just about everything on the boat failed. We have no idea what really happened here not the level of experience or competence, but even if she was really component the decision to go was reckless.

Very sad for all concerned.

Please remember this ladies family may be reading this forum.
 
lustyd said:
We were advised not to leave Douglas on IOM once by a fisherman with many years experience on fishing boats. We were absolutely fine because we were on a decent size yacht with a good keel etc. His advice was based on the fact that in a fishing boat you get bounced about like a cork.
Different experience gives different results, I agree that no conclusions can be drawn from the facts so far.

That said, adding to the speculation (and when I did that passage we were not close in nor in the dark) could she have just turned too soon? Sennen Cove is on a sticky out bit so it's possible she saw this, turned in and hit something?
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Perhaps we shouldn't speculate, but given the circumstances it is unlikely more will ever be known for certain, the search has now been called of.

This seems to have occurred at night at the start of a long passage. if she was planning to get her head down for a short while perhaps after turning north and clearing the Longships Reef would be a time to do so?

According to her husband she had experience in the Navy and on tall ships and had sailed cross channel before but never round Cornwall.
 
Seven Spades said:
This is terribly sad. The decision to take an untried boat without out a shakedown sail is reckless. A few years ago if I remember correctly a man was lost when he sailed with a new owner from the west country east. I think he was lost in Lyme Bay when just about everything on the boat failed. We have no idea what really happened here not the level of experience or competence, but even if she was really component the decision to go was reckless.

Very sad for all concerned.

Please remember this ladies family may be reading this forum.
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Seven Spades, she had a shake down sail, she had sailed it from Falmouth to Mousehole.

That must be about the seventh time that this has been stated on this thread.
 
mickywillis said:
See the quote below from the Yacht Brokers:

"She said: "They were just a nice middle-aged couple who were looking for a nice boat to do some coastal cruising in"

Which to me suggests that he was also interested in sailing if they were looking to coastal cruise together?
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Yes, obviously a throwaway comment from somebody from the broker's office (was the person who answered the phone to the reporter even the one who handled the sale?), filtered through a journalist and a news article, tells us everything we need to know about the couple and their intentions.

Presumably she is in the Merchant Navy and has a certificate as Master Unlimited, because the same broker said she had "a captain's ticket"?

Pete
 
It doesn't look good. It's very sad for friends and family.

As well as being sublimely beautiful, the sea can also be an extremely unforgiving mistress and I just hope that, whatever the pressure, I personally will always remember that.

Richard
 
snowleopard said:
You don't have to go far from shore to be out of range and the rhumb line from Cape Cornwall to Hartland point goes quite a way from shore.
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Had cell-phone coverage until well past the NE end of the TSS, on course for SE Ireland, until maybe 15miles NW of Pendeen Head. I sent the final progress SMS in that area. Likewise, on the return leg, the mobile phone indicated signal in about the same area, so sent an "arriving" SMS. But then I was well offshore. Nearer the coast there could be more shadows, especially where there are high cliffs or a steep coastline.

Plomong
 
oldbilbo said:
C'mon, Snowie! Even li'l ol' me knows that the Wolf Rock is rather a long way in the wrong direction....

Howzabout 'Armed Knight', 'Shark's Fin' and 'Kettle's Bottom'?
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Half a dozen miles off Gwennap Head. Not a lot if giving the corner a wide berth. As for anything inside the Longships one would need a lot of local knowledge (or none at all) to attempt that.
 
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