[OLD] Breaking News. Charlie Whipple shipwrecked!

[hearsejr]

 maybe we can all chip in and see if we can come up with $2500 for this..(35' Choey lee) ..http://richmond.craigslist.org/boa/731685927.html

[hearsejr]

here is a smaller cheaper and easier to get in to ship shape deal.72 Westerly Cirrus..
http://richmond.craigslist.org/boa/735889571.html

[hearsejr]

or how about this one?
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/for/737639618.html







Edit by CapnK: fixed URL link :)

[Kiwi25]

http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=163&t=0&id=22924

   Hate to be such a gloomy poster but here is another sad story, and a little bit about Charlie.   I did not know that he had actually turned back.. if the report is correct.  This lost yacht was found in the same area that  Resolution was lost....but it had drifted there.

   I was looking at a really cheap boat    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=162575272   this is on Trademe..the local clone of  ebay.  Where I buy most of my boats and boating gear.. ;)...and is on the water and probably could be sailed away.  I couldn't interest a friend of mine.... ::)   Its a typical NZ homebuilt type of boat.   Rough and basic.. but CHEAP.   It is becoming a buyers market here too as the worldwide recession bites.  Every now and then you get this...as with the Craiglist boats...please take this boat away.   Wives sometimes get a mention... ;D..    ;D  If you are on the spot and can find a place for it.. you have a gift...maybe... 
I have a 24ft (1/4 Ton) Pelin Prelude on a huge Tandem trailer..shoal keel...which I bought for $1200NZ.  It is a 20 yr old unfinished project of someones...built to the stage of needing painting and fitting.  Brand new mast and rigging..no sails.  Luckily I have a barn to put it in while I figure out what to do.   The trailer is worth what I paid for the whole deal.  Selling the mast and the lead would give me a nice profit.  But when I think of the work that went into her..2000hrs estimate from the designer...wow... :o
   The huge advantage of a boat on a trailer is that there is no ongoing cost.. and worry..cf a boat on a mooring. Pelin was the next designer after Hartley to hit the NZ Homebuild scene.  Most of his designs were double diagonal plywood.  His launch designs were very popular and still sell well.

  I think that Charlie wanted to do a trip that would create a book.. as he is a writer.  So the idea of actually BUILDING his own unique boat was part of the story.  And the way he did it.. actually casting his own bronze fittings , and lead keel, would give him a unique story.  I certainly found it interesting.

   http://tokyowest.typepad.com/   We await with interest Charies report.

[Kiwi25]

  Actually ..duh.. the Duckworks report is up.   http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/08/reports/resolution/index.htm

  Can you tell that Charlie is a writer?... :).    I still don't quite get why he ran aground..just a miscalculation I guess.   Seems that the boat design was good and was handling things well.  Just not enough leeway.

  Ian

[TomRay]

Here's Charlie's article about what happened.

Wow. I hate it when things that go bump in the night turn out to be an island.

[Needle]

Seems like his self steering broke....
Charlie mentioned broken tiller... Did it break after he hit the rocks?
This is just terrible... A friend of mine just lost his boat, on the rocks, through overconfidence and misleading information from the locals....  everyone was awake, nice day, and bang, struck a rock for real....

Charlie seems like a guy that can take it, though.... I am sure this is just a temporary set back for him..

[Godot]

It looks like Charlie Wipple is seriously weighing his options.  Build a new (much simpler boat) or buy a small good old boat.  It doesn't look like the adventure is over.

Boats he's considering to build: Bolger Seabird '86, Selway-Fisher Pioneer 23 or a Benford Sourdough 23.

[Captain Smollett]

Changed the topic line to mention that this is an old story....it's from 2008 and read "Breaking News."

I noticed this was a very popular topic to be read, especially by guests, and thought it was misleading. Still an interesting account, but no longer "Breaking News."