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Missing schooner with Briton(s) aboard
Topic Started: Jun 28 2013, 10:07 AM (2,089 Views)
Caro

Not a political story but a historic schooner with at least one Briton aboard is missing, going between NZ and Australia as part of a round-the-world trip. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8853454/Yacht-captain-experienced-sailor

The boat seems to have been out of contact for at least two weeks, but it has only been mentioned in the media for the last day or so. They say after searching thoroughly they are now looking for debris. Reports of who is aboard vary - 7 people, but in the first report they said 3 Britons and 3 Americans, but today they mentioned three Americans and a Brit as well as the skipper and his wife and son, whose nationality wasn't mentioned I think, but the father and son had the same names with III and IV with them, an American, not British tradition.

They seemed to have done lots of sea sailing, but conditions were very bad at times during June and it's a rough patch of sea, the Tasman Sea. I don't really know why they would have set off when they did.
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tafkaj

What? You've not heard of Henrys I through VIII? Or Edward I-VIII? Or George I-V? Etc.?
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That reminds me of Andrew McCauley, Caro - lost in the Tasman sea trying to kayak from Tasmania to New Zealand. There was a tv documentary incorporating video film he recorded on the trip before he was lost, probably having come into sight of land. It was said to be virtually suicidal and he was bound to encounter at least one hurricane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McAuley
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Caro

I remember Andrew McCauley's doomed trip (though I wouldn't have remembered his name) - he got so close apparently.

I have oddly enough heard of George 1 - VI etc, but they are royalty. Ordinary British people don't have this habit. You are not Tafkaj III with father Tafkaj II and son Tafkaj IV, are you? This tradition is rather hard on daughters who never seem to be Jessica IV. I remember reading about a Dunedin businessman who had proudly put Jones and Daughter (can't remember his real name and Dunedin might not be correct either!) on the outside of his building, but that is highly unusual and was very nice to read about.
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Caro
Jun 28 2013, 10:06 PM
had proudly put Jones and Daughter
I think I've come across that possibly a few times, Caro ...... and why not??!!
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Caro
Jun 28 2013, 10:06 PM
... I have oddly enough heard of George 1 - VI etc, but they are royalty. Ordinary British people don't have this habit. You are not Tafkaj III with father Tafkaj II and son Tafkaj IV, are you? ...
Aha ...

What you don't seem to realise is that in the UK we are all royalty! <(blooming parasites)> <princess> <unionjack> england erm <comeonandy> <wales> <harharhar>

Come on - on yer knees! <worthy>

Actually, I can trace my ancestry back to the Norman Conquest, so I'm probably Tafkaj LXXVII or sumfink ...

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This tradition is rather hard on daughters who never seem to be Jessica IV. I remember reading about a Dunedin businessman who had proudly put Jones and Daughter (can't remember his real name and Dunedin might not be correct either!) on the outside of his building, but that is highly unusual and was very nice to read about.


I see quite a few Proprietor & Daughter Ltd signs, frequently (for some reason) associated with removal companies - indeed, a quick Google search reveals 149m results!. I've also seen a couple of Proprietor & Grandsons, too - this search yields 16.9m results.
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Caro

I meant to say, Tafkaj, that while naturally you have to add the flag in the middle, when we were in Britain sometime (2004? 2007?) when some European football championship was on, the people who waved the England flag from their car windows did not strike me as particularly aristocratic, let alone royal. Yobbos was closer to the word we would have used, and perhaps xenophobic, though that might be being unfair - perhaps strongly nationalistic or patriotic might be better. (Though I have to say I was a little miffed at Lord's when the official told me I couldn't wave my flag.)

The most I'll manage to use is a minor bow - if I went down on my knees I doubt if I would ever get up again! And anyway it hurts to put pressure on your (mine anyway) knees.
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and what of the missing schooner Nina....

this on 29th June.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23110736

and yesterday lst July.... http://www.smh.com.au/world/nz-resumes-search-for-missing-schooner-20130701-2p64f.html
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Caro

The newspaper here reported the sole (see, no David Dyche IV in England) Englishman on board (a Green party activist they called him) as being terrified of water and the sea and of drowning. Drowning when you read of Shakespeare's Ophelia sounds a rather peaceful death, but I read - how I wish I hadn't - a description of drowning, which made it sound the most awful way to die.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8867656/Missing-sailor-feared-death-at-sea
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When I first met my husband, he had a fear of being under the water but not of being on top of it! Living by the sea, he grew up going fishing for bass and the like, but never learning to swim...he was building his own wooden boat when we started going out together...which he later sold to buy a Lambretta scooter for us to go a'travellin on....he eventually learnt to swim in his early twenties...
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