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Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« on: February 11, 2018, 06:11:42 am »

Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2

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© Jim Damaske, AP Tanner Broadwell holds his dog with Nikki Walsh at Madeira Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The couple who abandoned their workaday lives to buy a sailboat for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure instead lost almost everything when it sank on day two of their journey off Florida. They escaped injury when the 28-foot boat hit something and capsized Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico near Madeira Beach.

A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.

Within two days, their dream became a nautical nightmare.

On their way to Key West, Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh's voyage abruptly ended in John’s Pass off Madeira Beach, Fla., when their 28-foot sailboat struck something underwater Wednesday night.

"We hit something in about 8 or 9 feet of water and it stopped the boat completely," Broadwell told TV station WFTS.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2018, 06:15:58 am »
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2018, 07:42:34 am »
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2018, 01:23:56 am »
 :silly: There's dumb, and then there's dumber and then there's just plain stupid.  The folks are just plain stupid!!  Selling their worldly possessions to buy a 29 year old sailboat to embark on a sailing 'voyage' with admittedly very little sailing experience.  Yeppers, you just can't make this kind of stupid up!!   :silly:
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2018, 01:29:58 am »
Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000. It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported.

LOL. All the shit they owned came to a grand total of $10K. What a bunch of slack assed losers.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2018, 01:33:15 am »
No sailing experience and they were going to sail around the world...fate did them a favor and sunk their boat...idiots....like their dog though...used to have 3 pugs..
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 01:40:48 am »
No sailing experience and they were going to sail around the world...fate did them a favor and sunk their boat...idiots....like their dog though...used to have 3 pugs..

I can't stop laughing that they thought they were going to tour the world on a $5K boat. Bet they didn't even have current charts on the boat.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 01:41:24 am »
Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000. It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported.

LOL. All the shit they owned came to a grand total of $10K. What a bunch of slack assed losers.

Double Wides don't fetch much on the used market these days.
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2018, 01:44:03 am »
The really sad part is it wasn't even weather that caused them to sink.

Step one should have been a sailing course.   Plenty of good ones here
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2018, 01:44:18 am »
No sailing experience and they were going to sail around the world...fate did them a favor and sunk their boat...idiots....like their dog though...used to have 3 pugs..

Doggie is very cute.
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2018, 01:44:23 am »
I can't stop laughing that they thought they were going to tour the world on a $5K boat. Bet they didn't even have current charts on the boat.


The husband totally misunderstood the seller when he was told he would enjoy the sextant during the journey.
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2018, 01:46:03 am »
I can't stop laughing that they thought they were going to tour the world on a $5K boat. Bet they didn't even have current charts on the boat.

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Charts?  I got a cell phone I don't need charts
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2018, 01:46:37 am »
Doggie is very cute.

Wanna buy it? I hear they are hard up for cash.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2018, 01:47:52 am »
@Frank Cannon

Charts?  I got a cell phone I don't need charts

Probably a Tracfone flip.

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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2018, 01:51:30 am »
The really sad part is it wasn't even weather that caused them to sink.

Step one should have been a sailing course.   Plenty of good ones here

Sounds like they didn't get a lot for their money.
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2018, 01:56:17 am »
Looks like these two morons started a crowd funding page to help them recoup their losses.  It is up to 8K.

 I'm going to start a crowd fund to have these nitwits sterilized.
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2018, 02:00:24 am »
Sounds like they didn't get a lot for their money.

Sailing lessons cost about 400 and take some time.  Beginning to blue water classes are available.

Lots of cheap crappy boats too.

They aren't alone though.   It's wise to stay off the water here during holidays.   Downright dangerous with all the nitwits.
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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2018, 03:23:54 pm »

Humanity Has Failed: Millennials Who Sank Boat They Couldn't Sail Get $13,000 In Donations For New Boat
The couple is looking to replace their "sunken dreams."



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Re: Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2018, 03:28:28 pm »
I'll pitch in to get them new hats.  Anyone know their 'capsize'...?
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« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2018, 03:31:17 pm »
Reports are they have enough money to buy a better boat.  Plans are to set sail the 1st week of Hurricane season 2018.
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« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2018, 03:54:50 pm »
Reports are they have enough money to buy a better boat.  Plans are to set sail the 1st week of Hurricane season 2018.

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They didn't make it out of the inter coastal water way.    Which means they went about 2 miles and certainly didn't get into the gulf proper.

I can go further in a kayak.

Isn't it painful to be this stupid so publicly?
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« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2018, 04:18:10 pm »
@Wingnut
They didn't make it out of the inter coastal water way.    Which means they went about 2 miles and certainly didn't get into the gulf proper.

I can go further in a kayak.

Isn't it painful to be this stupid so publicly?

What is worse they are being rewarded for it with the crowd funding BS.   Stupid should have a cost associated with it!  lol
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« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2018, 04:24:09 pm »
Reports are they have enough money to buy a better boat.  Plans are to set sail the 1st week of Hurricane season 2018.

LMAO

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« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2018, 04:27:48 pm »
What is worse they are being rewarded for it with the crowd funding BS.   Stupid should have a cost associated with it!  lol

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heck I'll donate $5 towards the cause.  It'll be cheap entertainment when they screw up again.
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« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2018, 05:08:46 pm »
These idiots got stoned and watched The Love Boat for their boat skills.