I don't think he's gunning for a Pullitzer....Incredible and welcome to have a first hand account on video from the moment but he could have given quite a lot more detail, and a more coherent account.
Is that grey thing the chap is wearing the new 2025 'must wear' Solent Sailing gear? Not sure if I like the colour.Incredible and welcome to have a first hand account on video from the moment but he could have given quite a lot more detail, and a more coherent account.
Don't forget the young chap is, what they call in modern parlance, an "influencer".
I posted here when his You Tube channel started and I thought he was doing a great effort in promoting the hobby (cruising) to a younger audience. He seems to have abandoned You Tube now and moved to Tik Tok etc where I feel too old to add yet another media source to my consumption!
Well I hope he was insured if he has, as the title of the you tube says, ditched his house to buy a boat.
It wasn't Ed's boat ("Sailing Optimist") that sank. He was reporting on the event.
I don’t know the type of boat, but he was an older live aboard basically living rent free in Newtown. I understand he wanted to scrub off some sort of ancillary floating shed. As he had no engine for his boat or tender, he attempted to tow the whole shooting match ashore, caught by wind and tide went aground near the entrance and got holed. The rising tide took him off again, and it sank in the fairway shortly after as we can see. Insured, unlikely. He’s lost his home, and most of his possessions with it I expect. The boat will be easy to replace with another free, tatty old semi wreck I am sure. As to the rest, hard to say. What the NT will do about it God knows. A danger to navigation, possibly a fair bit of fuel on board, plus all the flotsam his belongings have become. It’s an environmental disaster in there as well as the human tragedy.