Small boat sailor needs help

[CapnK]

Heard about this over on Renegades, thought it needed passing around - see pictures here, and details of what happened here (clip from that story quoted below). There is a PayPal link on the fellows site, if you'd care to donate.

Frank - if you see this, please check your PM's.



From the Palm Beach Post, linked above:

Man homeless after boat blown into rocks

By MITRA MALEK

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, December 31, 2007

PALM BEACH SHORES — Scarf was four decades old. The sailboat had crossed the Atlantic, stopped in Venezuela and Tobago and endured two years of Quebec's arctic cold. Engineless for two years in the Caribbean, its captain kept it on course.

But strong winds at the Lake Worth Inlet Sunday morning did in the 1968 Armagnac, cracking the wooden boat against jagged rocks along the sea wall, destroying Edward Mark Rouvier's home of seven years.

Rouvier, a Frenchman, was on his way to the Bahamas with his girlfriend, Jacinthe Croteau, 27, of Quebec, Canada.

The crash left him homeless and pacing the jetty all day, looking for remains of the ship and belongings that washed up on the rocks.

"The boat is everywhere here," Rouvier, 30, said early Sunday evening.

He had recovered a flour container and a propane tank, parts of the hull and the compass.

[AdriftAtSea]

Here are the links that CapnK posted in working form:

LINK to Photos
Link to Article.

[CapnK]

Oops. All 3 links in OP are now fixed. Thx for catching that, Dan.

[AdriftAtSea]

Any time Capn K. :)  Glad to help. :)   Was a very pretty boat by the looks of it in the first couple of photos... do you know how big the boat was???

[CapnK]

It appears to be one of these, an Armagnac by Aubin. Built in '68, just shy of 28' LOA.

[maxiSwede]

Oh that really makes me sad. That's the true nightmare for every mariner...

Too bad.

[Zen]

Truly tragic!  :(

I'll do something, because every small bit helps, when starting from nothing!

[Pappy Jack]

Oh man, that's gotta hurt!!! :o "There, but for the grace of God, go I" as the saying goes. :'(

[CapnK]

Ed emailed me back, and he said that after this incident, he will be away from boating for a little while, of his own choice. I think he is heartbroken over the loss of his vessel, which he personally had put much effort and care into restoring.

Let's hope that the situation works out the best it can for him, however that may be. :)