You’r just jealous because you didn’t have the idea to drift across the Atlantic in a barrel, me think.
There is always the Pacific, nobody have tried that one yet.
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it has been one further month out there since we last checked on his progress and now four total since he departed from the Canary Islands, our less than famous Frogman appears to be reaching the end of his wayward and less than advisable odyssey.
never thought he’d have made it but give him some credit for being stubborn
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As one stubborn mule to another??
Game respects game…
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so sayeth the ass
Our “Friend in the Barrel”, after 122 days, declared his voyage as successfully finished; He crossed the longitude of the destination Martinique. Reading his blog lets think that HE is finished…
The problem is:
He really is 190 nm N of Puerto Rico, or 500 nm NNW of Martinique, without any chance to drift to Martinique.
He or his ‘experts’ developed a “hitchhike scheme”. A passing, southbound ship would lift the whole barrel on deck. Off Martinique, the barrel will be lowered into the sea again and someone from Martinique will tow it to the island.
He sent a message (I don’t know how):
“MESSAGES TO ALL SHIPS :
My crossing is over if a ship can take us to a Caribbean port or south.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
I’ll leave my beacon on to be spotted!”
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Lloyd’s Open Form?
May be, but how a court can determine the salvaged value of a stinking barrel?
Get Sotheby’s to sell it? Or failing that, ebay?
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Our „Friend in the barrel“ seems to be the winner in his opinion… and effectively the big looser; he will not arrive on a Caribbean island, nor in the Bahamas, nor on the American continent.
Some 8 hours ago the barrel reversed course to NE at 11 knots against 20 knots of easterly wind. This is only possible when the barrel is on a ship. Now, he stopped transmitting his position.
On MarineTraffic a ship, North of the Virgin Islands, corresponds to this path:
The reefer ‘Dole Asia’ coming from San Juan PR, now on course 57° at 17 knots, arrival May12 at Antwerp BE.
Hitched a free ride home… WINNING
I can only imagine that this played out on deck after recovery.
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Last week, Savin’s remarkable journey came to a successful conclusion after 127 days and six hours at sea. As he wrote on his Facebook page, after arriving in the Caribbean on May 2, an oil tanker towed Savin and his craft to the tiny Dutch island of St. Eustatius. His handmade vessel had made a 2,930-mile journey.
“Some joked and ask if they were arresting him on arrival for being so crazy,” St. Eustatius resident Dorette Courtar told CNN. “Others, like myself, were fascinated by this journey and technology.”
Savin’s journey was inspired by Alain Bombard. In 1952, the French doctor traveled solo from the Canary Islands to Barbados in a rubber inflatable boat without any food or water, surviving on raw fish and saltwater. Before launching his attempt in the orange barrel, Savin told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle he had read Bombard’s book on the journey numerous times.
Savin was no stranger to danger or to the extreme conditions an Atlantic crossing would entail. According to his website, he is a former military paratrooper and conservator at Central Africa National Park. Savin also crossed the Atlantic four times in a sailboat, ascended Mont Blanc in 2015 and swam across the Arcachon Bay in France on four occasions.