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1000 Days Non-stop at Sea
Stories of Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad aboard the Schooner Anne and the Quest to set a new Sailing Record of 1,000 Days @ Sea w/o stopping or resupply!
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The blog is not my job.
Many people were interested in following the 1000 Days Ocean Odyssey
I (the blogger for Reid & Soanya) began the blog while working onboard their 70′ Schooner when it was tied up to Chelsea Piers in Manhattan in 2004. The preparation for the expedition lasted for more than a decade.
It depends on the publicity the 1000 Days Expedition has at the moment and/or awards the blog has received at the specific period of time. It ranges from thousands upwards, and the hit count is roughly half a million currently.
No income from the blog itself to speak of, though there is a link to the website www.1000days.net where you can contribute via paypal.
Anyone with wanderlust in their soul and dissatisfaction in their heart.
Usually at least a half hour, often more.
If you want subscribe, feel free to do so, as it is a fascinating and unique sailing venture to follow with daily blog postings live from the deep blue sea.
Keep writing, keep blogging, write your heart and never give up.
This blog can be visited at http://1000daysatsea.blogspot.com/
September 13th, 2007 - 6:47 pm
This blog is the worst blog I have ever dealt with because the blogger, Jesse, will not permit anyone to post a blog that is at all negative, and I do not mean something containing something vulgar, I just mean anything he doesn’t want to hear. I have never seen such censorship before in any public forum. There’s a website, www.sailinganarchy.com and they have whole sections about this adventure and about how they have not been able to post anything in this blog because they expressed any doubt about the success of the venture.
So to you, Jesse Fradkin (or sould I say “Sailfastandfree”), you’re a lousy blogkeeper. And isn’t it convenient that they’ve “lost their satellite locator” so we can’t know where they are? I bet they’re on one of those three islands in the Gulf of Guinea!
September 13th, 2007 - 7:08 pm
I will continue to post anything on the blog comments that is not excessively insulting, ignorant, derisive, or devisive. The previous comment was made by someone whose attempts at postings were not up to this lowly criteria and he or she seems to be on a vendetta in keeping with their outrageously false claims. Some people just don’t seem to know how to keep their negative emotions under control, or keep their verbiage on a course near enough to true to get to their destination. Sailing anarchy forums about Stowe have become scatological attempts at character assassination not at all befitting of the sailing community at large.
Thanks for the 500,000 hits on the blog, the continued active support of many, many followers, as well as all those well considered and polite commentors who get to publish their comments on the blog daily.
September 13th, 2007 - 10:04 pm
Jesse - it’s “divisive” - that’s “dee eye vee ….” And please - look up “scatological.” It’s YOU who has talked so much about scat. But that’s three times today you’ve tried to use a word you don’t know but say just because you like the sound.
I care as much about posting on your blog as Reid does about keeping Soanya’s head above water when that bobbing hulk sinks. There are not many people you post who have any idea what they are talking about much less what will happen inevitably to your hero and his girlfriend. The ones who do know something have all left because they were making sense and you didn’t like it. Now I watch because it’s fun to see you saying things you neither understand nor believe. Like the space cadets hit a ship. Now - go eat some cheese with your kool aid.
September 13th, 2007 - 10:09 pm
The censorship of this blog is unfortunate. The censorship is a result of many experienced sailors, many serious blue water sailors, pointing out the unpreparedness, relative ignorance, and danger of Reid Stowes’ voyage. It scares me that this voyage may end in utter tragedy and with the death of two people who should have been warned by their sycophants (sic).
There is no vendetta against Reid. Just a bunch of smart, experienced people pointing out the stupidity of a person who is borderline mentally ill.
September 13th, 2007 - 10:31 pm
Good move, Jesse - now you’ve disabled the clickthrough link on the blog to THIS site. You didn’t want the others to see what’s being said here - right? Don’t forget to remove the URL to the right of the clickthrough.
You make the point beautifully …..
September 13th, 2007 - 10:58 pm
There is an unfortunately hostile and abusive verbal vendetta being waged by chicken littles who have only second hand heresay ‘knowledge’ of Stowe’s preparations or persona. The unrealistic “Realist” claims he’s scared they’ll die, so obviously he is doing his best to help them by condemning the voyage into ridicule in the spirit of the so-called sailing anarchy crowd, while he claims the more often than not insultingly stupid commentary on Sailing Anarchy as indicative of smart people. Reading their comments will convince you otherwise.
I too have blue water experience. I too am a serious sailor. I have met and worked with Stowe, and though I may have taken issue at times with his off center ego-centric attitude, & lack of funding among other things, he has devoted himself to sailing and this venture in a fashion that I believe is far more commendable than it is ludicrous, unseaworthy or unrealistic.
Those sailing anarchists didn’t think he’d leave the dock. They were certain it was all a scam. They still cry they are only putting down Stowe to save the innocent Soanya from her unfortunate predetermined death at sea for having put her life in the hands of a maniac, to use one of the more polite terms to which he is refered on their marvelous site of such experienced and responsible sailors who pretend they are showing their superior love of sailing and their fellow sailors.
He is now approaching 150 days at sea, having been hit by a 300′ freighter early on which destroyed his bowsprit and headstays. I believe he deserves unqualified support from the sailing community as a fellow sailor, and not the hatred which he is presented daily by those self-deceiving souls who seem to constantly claim what better and smarter sailors they are than he, & to save Soanya from her certain untimely demise in their selflessness.
I am not one who puts much stock in the relationship of the expedition to interstellar travel. I am a man who went to meet Stowe after having read about him, to see what sort of man and what kind of sailor he was. I found him to be a kind hearted charismatic individual, well versed in sailing and the ways of the sea. He knows his Schooner well having sailed her already around the world and built every inch by his design and hand. His nautical miles and experience would dwarf those who condemn him as incompetant. None of those criticizing him (more often than not ignorant of the facts and usually in a completely unfounded fashion) would have ever attempted what he is doing even on a well funded multimillion dollar boat, let alone on one they had built and struggled to prepare for a journey as potentially arduous as this one. He is what he is, and I believe he’s not a bad man nor a bad sailor, rather that he deserves better from this mad condemning crowd that claims to be so far above him in their sailing acumen, integrity, and grit.
They use every excuse for their ridicule, their negativity, and their disgustingly uninformed elitism to continue their diatribes.
If they are so damn sick of Stowe, why don’t they stop following his blog in their perverse fascination awaiting his death and/or destruction and go back to racing around the buoys and drinking themselves into oblivion to forget they are not out at sea under the stars sailing with a woman half their age?
I would have hoped there might have been a bit more support for a very unusual effort at a long distance continual sailing that smacks much more of the great Moitessier than it does the unfortunate star of Black Water.
That these malcontents cry censorship when submitting ridiculing ridiculous comments that have been rejected rather than published on the blog, makes me wonder again just why they want so much to be able to spill their bile into whatever waterway will have them.
CENSORSHIP?
Hell no, I am maintaining a modicum of decorum on a blog. YOU CRY ABOUT CENSORSHIP IN CYBERSPACE? Grow up kids, it’s a Brave New World out here. GET THE FUCK OVER IT to use a bit of the vernacular so popular on their site.
Believe me, it would be much easier to never have to moderate another comment on the blog. As it is, 97 out of a hundred get published.
To those who get rejected, try not to be such a damn wuss and get over it.
Go read something else.
September 13th, 2007 - 10:59 pm
and nope wrong again red bird i didn’t disable the link
fly away
September 14th, 2007 - 1:28 pm
Jesse, You’re full of crap regarding what you have censored and you know it, and so does everyone who has been blocked by you.
September 14th, 2007 - 1:30 pm
Taken shamelessly from dictionary.com:
di·vi·sive
1. forming or expressing division or distribution.
2. creating dissension or discord.
sca·tol·o·gy
1. the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
2. obscenity, esp. words or humor referring to excrement.
3. the study of fossil excrement.
Just trying to spread knowledge.
September 14th, 2007 - 2:02 pm
Everything said about your hero at SailingAnarchy is taken from his blog. He is not a sailor - he is a homeless street preacher who talks in bafflegab while pretending to be some kind of new age philosopher. But he most definitely is not a sailor. Or a seagoing man. Or some kind of ancient mariner as he muses. No one - other than, obviously, his girlfriend - would even dream of going to sea in a leaking hulk whose bottom is so foul it can barely make headway in a wind. No “captain” would ever imagine trying to handle three sails and a tiller all by himself in a whole gale or hurricane while watching for icebergs and ice accumulation in the southern ocean. No sane person would ever undertake such a “voyage” with such complete lack of preparedness. Your hero even tries to fix the holes in his hull from the inside and then asks his readers if any of them know how to make epoxy stay in the hole against the water pressure from the outside. He says he intentionally left with the known leaks figuring he’d fix them “some way some day.” He - and you - want us to believe he hit an 80,000 ton fast moving ship and simply bounced off with no further damage than his bent bowsprit. It failed because it was rigged improperly and the rigging wasn’t maintaind properly. Look up “bow wave” and “stern wave” sometime. and then convince us he’d have simply bounced off and slid down the side of that ship. Soanya woke up because she heard three bangs. Not because she was thrown from her bunk.
I wrote the idiot off long ago and I’ve likewise written Soanya off as his willing companion - even though she has no idea of the danger she’ll be in if they really try to get into the southern ocean. Of course, with the captain thinking the easterlies will blow him eastward, they may never find the ocean.
You provide comic relief in an otherwise boring blog. You see value in posters who suggest using a toilet plunger over the internal patch to counter the water pressure or sealing the hold so the air pressure inside can be raised to equal the water pressure. You write your filthy poems on SailingAnarchy and complain mightily about how reid should be accepted as one of them instead of being ridiculed and then you say the anarchists should stop reading your blog. You should take your own advice, sailfastandfree. But please don’t. If you do, the blog will become impossibly boring and I’ll have to stop watching.
September 14th, 2007 - 4:08 pm
this is a very good blog for people who live on land and like to fantasize about the romance and adventure of the sea.
if you are a sailor, you will find the blog very upsetting; as it could just as well be a ‘what not to do’ manual for going offshore.
the captain is a conman and narcisist; the crew a dumbell.
it is often cited that the captain ‘built’ his own ship to impress readers. what is never understood by landlubbers is that it is constructed of chicken wire and bondo.
the blogkeeper most certainly deletes any comments from sailors. he prefers to daily publish comments from a washed up landlocked stripper who has never gotten a toe wet.
if there is any question in your mind as to the sanity of the captain of this ship; go to:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=void+ho&search_category=&search=Search
September 14th, 2007 - 4:44 pm
I respect Reid and his side kick for what they are doing and yes it is dangerous and maybe even a little foolish but so is mountain climbing, sky diving or my own vice, motorcycle racing. At least they are doing something and not sitting at home on the computer bashing other people. Reid seems to have an interesting life, the rest of you critics need to get one!
September 14th, 2007 - 5:26 pm
Well said but a question: before you race your motorcycle, do you check the tires? Lubricate it? If there were a race from, say, New York to Fairbanks, would you put the bike on a stand and check things like the suspension and transmission and drive train? If it’s chain driven, would you check the chain tension? Make sure the headlight works? Maybe adjust the brakes?
There’s no question about the thrill of it all and how we all would love to do it or, at least, a couple of months of it. But I would not take my wife or anyone else who has absolutely no experience at sea or, even, on a sailboat, around the world in a boat I know is leaking, that I know has a foul bottom, that I don’t haul to at least look at the bottom and, maybe, scrape the first couple of layers of growth from it. I wouldn’t do it to myself because I’m not crazy. Mountain climbers don’t go without checking equipment and making sure it’s in good condition. Sky divers pack their own parachutes and check the canopies carefully - in fact, they don’t jump a canopy that has exceeded its jump life - even if it looks perfectly good.
What width gorge are you willing to jump with your motorcycle? Google the “southern ocean” or look it up in wikipedia to see what they can expect. A lot of sailors have died there and they knew what they were doing in sailing ships that were properly maintained and crewed.
The problem is Jesse constantly berating sailors who know what they are talking about and trying to convince them Reid Stowe knows what he’s doing and should be supported in his fantasy. Look at the “void ho” link a couple of posts up left by “blue” and ask yourself if this is the guy you would trust with your life in the middle of a hurricane in a sea of fifty to eighty foot waves and icebergs while the temperature is well below zero - for a couple of weeks at a time. Remembering, of course, your boat is leaking, there’s no real directional control because of the foul bottom and you have no clue about how to sail it if he falls overboard or gets hurt or sick. And, by the way, there is practically no chance of rescue.
It’s an “interesting life” for sure. But “interesting” becomes “terrifying” when you wake up in water up to your waist one morning and realize a “crack” in the hull is no longer just “seeping.” Or when a whole list of other horribles begins to happen. It’s not to say don’t go. It’s to say don’t go until you’re ready. Reid did - and he did it knowing his boat leaks, that it needed hauling and that a lot of work was needed to make it ready. The problem was he didn’t have the money to do what needed to be done. That being so, he shouldn’t have gone and he shouldn’t have taken a starstruck girl with him just for her companionship. .
Anyway - it’s fun poking at good ole Jessie. He takes it all so personally and thinks he’ll convert sailors into believers just because this guy is bobbing around in the atlantic for a long time with no place to call home. Ain’t gonna happen.
September 14th, 2007 - 5:52 pm
Robin - If I committed myself to a motorcycle race and did not have the cash for new tires, brakes and proper maintenance. I would still give it the old College try and If I break down, then at least I tried, if I crash, I have a good helmet for my head and carbon fiber body armor to protect my ass. I would bet Reid has a good life raft and safety equipment, he might be a little foolish but I doubt he is a fool.
September 14th, 2007 - 7:14 pm
Yup - there’s a picture of his “life raft” on his blog. In the plastic wrap in the hold. You need to read some of his postings. He’s a lot more than a little foolish - in my opinion. But - to carry your analogy a little further, change it to stock car racing. There it’s not just you who gets hurt if your car isn’t properly maintained. In Reid’s case, if he’s in a storm and he gets in trouble, he’ll call for help and some coast guard helo pilots will risk their lives to save him - if he’s not too far south. The “old college try” is fine until it involves others risking their lives to save yours.
In any event - it’s his choice to be foolish and mine to critcize him. And when that thing starts to sink, I’d rather be me. But - again - that’s simply my opinion.
September 14th, 2007 - 8:00 pm
Robin - I saw a movie recently called the Worlds Fastest Indian. It’s a 100% true story about a foolish old man on his 60 year old ill prepared motorcycle (that he purchesed new) trying to break a land speed record. He reached 200mph (on 60 year old tires) smashing every existing record in his class.
The man is now a legend and not such the fool.
Maybe Reid is not such the fool as he appears. Only time will tell.
Cheers
September 14th, 2007 - 8:07 pm
Good to talk with you. Be sure to watch that YouTube link up there posted by Blue. He’s multi-talented
September 14th, 2007 - 9:09 pm
here’s a link to reid’s friends and supporters.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PCZS73CH1wU
the real support begins at 6:06.
September 15th, 2007 - 8:00 am
Be aware that when you watch the link by Blue (18 above - starting at 6:06) you will have the sensation of your brain leaking out of your ears. It’s just an illusion. But it is troubling.
September 15th, 2007 - 2:46 pm
I made it to 8:05 and my head exploded.
I am OK now.
Reid is one odd duck (in our world) lets all hope he is Albert Einstein odd and not, he should be in a padded cell odd.
It all makes for such fun and we would not be having these discussions if it was Steve Fossett on a Corporate funded multi million dollar sail boat.
I still wish the best for Reid and resist the temptation to bash him. If he runs into problems we don’t want his pride preventing him from giving up and at this point should only be giving him our support.
September 15th, 2007 - 3:45 pm
Wait, wait, wait - it just dawned. Races motorcycles AND sails a Swan 70? That alone will keep you from ever being heard over at Reid’s site. Big, fancy, store bought boat AND a motorcycle. Please don’t tell us you also have a job. Or that you pay to slip your boat and buy your own gasoline and oil for the bike. I can hear Jesse gasping for breath. Quick - you did carve your own winches and blocks from pieces of mahogany and ebony you found floating off the coast of Madagascar 20 years ago - right?
Don’t worry about his pride - he’ll never “give up.” He doesn’t have the money to do anything else. Otherwise, when his bowsprit failed 15 days out he’d have turned around, gotten it fixed, gotten the leaks patched, gotten the rest of the boat shipshape and started fresh without all the work he still hasn’t finished.
But - you’re right and I wish him well. I simply think he’s a damned fool and his girlfriend is nuts for tagging along. Especially if they really get into the southern ocean.
September 15th, 2007 - 5:02 pm
You say Reid financed a 3 year ocean voyage and does not have a job.
Hmmm maybe he is a genius.
September 19th, 2007 - 11:17 am
I did a little more research before I continued what seems like my solo defense of Reid.
Reid seems to have more sailing experience then has been suggested.
Reid’s boat is not the first he has built and is more then just “Bondo on chicken wire”
On the negative side, his life raft is a small Avon.
To not have an auto inflating life raft with sun protection and provisions is crazy. I hope Reid knows how long it takes to hand pump his Avon.
Lets all hope, no big leaks.
September 19th, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Reid needs no defense - he’s out there with his girlfriend and he knows only what Jesse tells him. So it makes no difference what anyone says about him.
As to his “sailing experience” I think the question is whether he has twenty years of experience or one year repeated twenty times (or one month repeated 240 times). Tell me an “experienced” sailor who would put to sea for nearly three years with the intention of not even seeing land much less getting supplied knowing his hull is cracked and leaking. The “cracks”, by the way, resulted (Reid says) from the boat being lifted onto a concrete dock during a storm in New York Harbor. He tried to fix them by “smearing” epoxy on the outside (in freezing weather) while at dock and now by smearing epoxy on the inside - he’s not too worried right now because they are only “seeping.” But he prefers the boat be dry so he wonders aloud how to make the epoxy stay in the holes against the water pressure. Who would undertake such a “voyage” with two years of growth on his hull? Who would plan to go into the southern ocean with a schooner rigged boat single handed? Where the only store bought piece of equipment apparently is the roller reefing for the jib. Who would go single handed with a failing foredeck and samson post, no crew to help with any of the sails or the tiller in a storm while his boat will make no more than a couple of knots in 15-25 knots of wind? I wonder if he knows how long the passage around the horn takes when his bottom is so foul and the wind and icebergs don’t cooperate. Some of the clippers way back when reported forward progress of seven miles one day and five miles back the next. Those are ships that regularly made 240 miles in a day.
It’s a joke - it’s not about wishing bad things for him. In fact, when I started reading the blog, I spent a full day looking for a way he could track other ships by gps to warn him when there was somebody nearby. But then I saw he has his CARD system mounted on a deck house behind a mast - that’s the one that didn’t warn him about the 80,000 ton ship with which he supposedly collided. Then I read how he and his girlfriend are maintaining a 24/7 watch with a full scan every 15 minutes. uh huh. Now he is buildng a spar in case one is broken in the southern ocean. But he’s still dragging all the growth he said he was going to scrape with a snow shovel. Dive in calm water, swim to the bottom of the hull and scrape with the aluminum snow shovel. His water is full of algae because they didn’t put enough chlorine in the storage tank. they were “light” on the chlorine, he says, because they were afraid too much would keep the beans from sprouting (I am NOT making that up - read it yourself on the blog)
No, Swan - it’ s not a matter of wishing him ill or attacking him. It’s fun pointing to the obvious and watching Jesse jump around screaming what a great “sailor” and “seafarer” Reid is and how everyone is too negative. Did you look at the picture of his “raft” on his blogsite? It’s still in the plastic wrapping on top of other stuff piled in the hold. You wonder about self inflation? I wonder how they get the thing out of the hold and into the water if it’s needed.
As Jesse says - relax and enjoy the ride. I am. It’s Jesse who gets upset so easily. (By the way, Jesse, I agree with you that it’s your site and you decide who gets to post. But you must admit it’s gotten really boring when Amber even posts about how many charcoal briquets to use in her waxed cardboard grill oven and how to use the thing.) The shame is, one day the gps and satellite reports will be missing. And then the next and the next. All we’ll be able to do is hope they really were kidding everyone and are safely ashore on some island living in a bamboo and banana hut eating rice and sprouts. And drinking coconut milk.
September 19th, 2007 - 12:29 pm
Robin are you sure Reid plans on sailing around the Horn?
With good weather the Horn can be tricky, on an average day it can be dangerous and on a bad day it is suicide for boats even larger then Reid’s.
I hope you are wrong or I am joining the ranks of Reid bashing.
September 19th, 2007 - 12:52 pm
You really need to read his site. He plans to go south in the atlantic to the southern ocean, pass the horn and then go “under” australia into the pacific. He even talks about how he was there once before - with a crew - and the winds were over 100mph and his boat was knocked down.
Here’s his blog entry from August 28: Note the parts about how “the easterly trade winds could push us in an easterly direction” and ” Our long range plan, which we still want to carry out, is to sail the Southern Ocean south of Australia and into the Pacific in the austral summer hoping for better weather. We plan on entering the Southern ocean in November, so we have two months to get back down there.” Note also that he cannot get within site of land. That means no using the various channels north of the horn or, even, taking a break to fix whatever breaks. Void Ho!!
August 28, 2007 Day 128
Voyage of the Heart
Wind E 15-20 knots, Course NE, Speed 5 knots, Position: 14° 55 S, 19° 58 W
I feel it’s about time for another explanation of where we are and where we are going. It looks like we are not going to be able to draw a heart with the course that we sail. Our track on the map won’t look like a heart. Our original plan to draw a giant heart was diminished by our collision, the repairs, and the realization that we couldn’t go to windward as well as we used to. We thought we could draw a smaller heart, but several big wind shifts against us started to make that heart even smaller. There is still a possibility of salvaging the idea. The easterly trade winds could push us in an easterly direction and we could sail two large arcs, which would form the top of a wobbly heart once we joined our track going southwest. However, we are not going to do that for several reasons. Since we’ve entered the southern hemisphere on July 21st , we’ve had steady strong winds with only a few hours of calm weather. It’s been great sailing with runs of up to 180 miles, but we don’t need to go fast. What we need is some calm weather to finish our repairs. We are sailing north to the equator to calm down, warm up, and finish a long list of important jobs. We’ve also had, since crossing the equator, only windy misty drizzle, not enough water to fill our tanks. Other sailors we’ve read about have sailed north of the equator because they were not able to catch enough water in the Southern Ocean. Our long range plan, which we still want to carry out, is to sail the Southern Ocean south of Australia and into the Pacific in the austral summer hoping for better weather. We plan on entering the Southern ocean in November, so we have two months to get back down there. In the midst of these unique strategies, we live our lives. We have left as many thoughts of the land behind as possible in order to adapt to the sea. In some ways it’s a rough ride. We live like gorillas moving from one spot to the next by hanging from the ceiling. The schooner is always bounding forwAard like a runaway covered wagon and we are inside sending our little satellite messages so that earthbound folks can vicariously pioneer into empty space with us. Sometimes we think, “This is so beautiful, everyone envies us.” On the other hand, the physicality and challenges requires us to constantly tap our inner well. We have even had to delve into a larger shared human psyche to find more strength, to keep healthy, and to keep going. Ours is still a voyage of the heart. I look at the compass. Yes, we are on course. I stand up into the plexi cupola for a quick 360 view. The waves sparkle into infinite light. Salt spray flies at the boat. It’s surprisingly cold outside and too wet to enjoy for some time now. It’s comfortable in our cozy pilothouse and we are quite used to living on a bounding angle. Our hearts grow larger
September 19th, 2007 - 4:25 pm
A friend of mines Cheoy Lee Clipper was significantly damaged rounding the horn after enduring 72 hours of heavy pounding.
I hope Reid built himself a solid boat.
September 20th, 2007 - 6:05 pm
Anne has to be the most solid heavy weather vessel I have ever had the pleasure of setting foot upon, and I have been on many, many sailing vessels. You could tell, from the moment you felt the heft and weight of her companionway hatch, that she was built to take the worst of the sea, and indeed had already spent half a year in the Antarctic, among her many other prior accomplishments. Oh yeah, indeed her Captain- the much maligned and cursed favorite of the ignorant SA drunken fake sailor crowd- the architect and builder Reid Stowe was at the helm for this and more than one crossing of Cape Horn as well. The don’t know a thing about what they’re spouting SA crowd, remain truly beneath the dignity of a response. Suffice it to say that I can barely recall the last time I rejected a comment on the blog. Babies, simply uninformed blasheming babies who obviously not only know nothing about sailing, they are off sailing in their own cloud of privilege and abuse. Thanks Swan 70′ for some relatively objective perspective, and my regards to ya for the effort and taking it on a bit…
September 20th, 2007 - 7:48 pm
“Suffice it to say that I can barely recall the last time I rejected a comment on the blog.”
I am the author of one of the blogs recently rejected. I am too bored by all of this to take the oportunity to re-express my thoughts here. I would simply like to convey to anyone interested that my written thoughts were not in any way insultive, immature or otherwise unworthy of publication. I am not affiliated with the “SA crowd” though that is immaterial. I believe that this blog site is extremely censored; allowing only flowery statements of praise. On RARE occasion, a seemingly negative but ultimately benign statement is published as if to say, “see, I allow all statements to be heard.” But I say on behalf of all of us who have attempted to share wisdom and truth; this site does not allow wisdom and truth. I guess my question is: What are you afraid of?
September 20th, 2007 - 10:49 pm
I think I read that when Reid sailed to Antartica he had a crew of seven (or eight), and I’m assuming those were experienced sailors who knew what they were doing. For the Egomaniac and the Mute to attempt sailing the Horn alone is a ridiculous task. Heck, I still say they’ve been on one of the islands in the Gulf of Guinea those 12 days they didn’t have satellite contact! They definitely made sight of Africa, and that’s not allowed on this trip — no physical contact with anyone and not to see any land for 1000 days.
And Jesse, aka Mr. Malaprop, you’re still a liar (scatological??? what’s that. your favorite word, shithead? Rather appropriate, I guess).
September 21st, 2007 - 2:19 am
Jessie - baby - you really need to decide if you’re going to drink, smoke or write. A couple of things: one does not “cross” Cape Horn in a boat - especially if one is sworn not to even see land. If the “drunken fake” sailors at SA are “beneath the dignity of a response,” why do you respond? The broken down, barnacle encrusted, cracked hull Anne is the “most solid heavy weather vessel I have ever had the pleasure of setting foot upon?” Your average Staten Island Ferry has a better chance in the Southern Ocean than that tub. But what are some of these “many sailing vessels” you’ve been on? There’s not a single professionally built sailboat longer than forty feet that is not a better boat for any kind of weather than that pos you brag about. Not one. It’s solid? It’s leaking, its foredeck is cracked, its bowsprit is broken, it can’t balance (according to its intrepid “captain”) properly and it’s incapable of maintaining steerageway in a strong breeze. It’s not a boat - it’s a giant sponge with storage space.
Jessie - I”m sure you can’t recall the last time you rejected someone on the blog. It’s called “blacking out” or “stupor.” But it doesn’t make any difference, Jessie baby - your blog is boring. Don’t you see? It’s about people who like listening to a street preacher and his girlie. Whatever happened to ChuckXX - one of your former alter egos? Even he was better than AmberD and her homilies. Of course it’s not censorship - it’s YOUR blog and you can be as courteous or not as you like. And being a falling down drunken hack who is pretending the whole time anyway - well ….
Just go quietly, jessie - go quietly and commune with Reid and Soanya. They’ll be ok - they’ll lash themselves to the foredeck, take deep drags on their shared joint, raise their hands overhead and float with their boat above the raging sea. Did you ever read Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? It’s a lot more appropriate than fantasizing about a “Mars Ocean Odyssey.” You and your space cadets are “B Ship” people, Jessie. Blast off! And void ho!!!!
September 21st, 2007 - 10:43 am
I wanted to be sure you understand the reference to the “B Ship” people
http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm
September 21st, 2007 - 2:23 pm
“B Ark” Wow a trip back to my youth. I wonder if I were to find the book as brilliant now as I did in 1978 or just plain silly.
September 21st, 2007 - 2:56 pm
I finished reading every post from Soanya and Reid from day 1 and found them intelligent and well written.
It is reassuring to know we don’t have 2 idiots floating around in the open ocean. I was a little concerned after watching Reid’s odd video that was more attune to a second year theater major then a man of Reids age.
September 21st, 2007 - 3:11 pm
My Name?…..says “Anne has to be the most solid heavy weather vessel I have ever had the pleasure of setting foot upon”
Robin and Blue, I know how you describe the boat but have you ever been on Reid’s boat?
September 21st, 2007 - 3:24 pm
Nope. But a correction: it is not ME who described the boat. Everything I’ve said about that boat came from what Reid said.
September 21st, 2007 - 3:29 pm
Robin- An accoplished architect and builder can often be very self critical.
September 21st, 2007 - 3:44 pm
Perhaps. But so what if he is? I became intrigued before they left and I read their site. When they left I followed in mind’s eye - still intrigued. Then, in 15 days, he says he hit an 80,000 ton ship, exchanged pleasantries by radio and discovered the damage the next morning. I didn’t believe a word but it wasn’t important. What was important was that he didn’t turn around, get his boat shipshape and start fresh - he was only two weeks into a 143 week “voyage” and he was intending to go into some very dangerous waters with no crew. Then he says he knew the thing leaked before they left. And he knew it had two years of growth on the bottom but he’d scrape it with his snow shovel.
So - I don’t think of him as “an accomplished architect and builder”, Jesse. I think of him as a panhandling fool. But why is it important to you what I or anyone else thinks? Why is it so important to make such an obvious fool appear like he has a clue? Why do you care that I think he’s a fool? Just ignore me and the others who say the same. He’s on his boat, he’s got his girlfriend and food with him and nothing I say will change a thing.
I don’t know why YOU care but I keep it up because it’s fun watching the reaction. And lemme tell you one more thing - if you think you can tell much about the seaworthiness of a boat by walking its deck, hefting it’s hatch and talking to it’s “architect and builder” - man, do I have a boat to sell you. A couple, in fact.
Now I see why you picked such a nice boat to use for a name.
September 21st, 2007 - 4:21 pm
Robin - Are you suggesting that I (Swan70) is someone else? (Jesse) or am I the one who is confused?
September 21st, 2007 - 5:41 pm
Dunno and don’t really care.
September 21st, 2007 - 6:22 pm
I think you do care. Some of your post’s are convincing and you had be back and forth on the fence for a while but it was ultimately my own research that has me disagreeing with you and with that you suggest I am the host posing as Swan70?????
What really turned me around was your suggestion that Reid never hit the ship.
Do you know how much force it would take to bend a steel tube (bowsprit) that size? It is at least 3 times the diameter needed for a boat that size and the fact that it did bend and was not ripped out of the bow is an indication as to how well the boat is built. do you really think the Jib bent it? Come on your a smart guy and you said yourself it is a slow boat, 2 or 3 knots worth of damage if you ask me.
Sorry if I am ranting I never post in anger but I was a taken aback by your last post and bet your friend (lol) Jesse is getting a good laugh out of it.
Cheers
Brad
September 21st, 2007 - 6:37 pm
Brad,
Believe me I have long since ceased laughing at their craziness. And nope Robin is not my friend, for anyone who can’t tell yet.
Listening to them rant and rave in so depraved a fashion so far from the truth always leaves me wondering why they are so full of hate and so far from reality?
For people who have admittedly never met Reid, and never set foot on his boat, that their opinions are so certain does make you wonder where exactly their agenda comes from, doesn’t it?
Too respond to their usual bull, worthless bullheaded and wrong points all, is just beneath the dignity of anyone who thinks for themselves. I’d suggest you don’t bother with it anymore Brad. I can tell you from experience, you will be astounded at the level of ignorance and assumptive stupidity.
Fair winds and smooth sailing in solidarity.
September 21st, 2007 - 7:29 pm
I don’t intend to argue the point because my fun is not in arguing - it’s in watching. I say something and Jessie goes nuts with all the crap about it being beneath his dignity to say anything and then he continues the rant.
Nobody has a report of a “collision” - ask the coast guard or Maersk. The blog entry was that Soanya woke up because she heard three bangs. Not that she was tossed from her bunk. Reid saw the dark hull going by but says nothing about a bow or stern wave. But - ok - he hit the freighter, talked with the captain by radio and then continued on. Nothing he could do that night, he says, so they went back to bed. After hitting an 80,000 ton ship you go back to bed? This, by the way, followed the inadvertent wandering into a naval gunnery area from which they were chased by jet fighters. Read those posts - no one had heard of a NOTAM.
But like I said - I don’t care to argue he point. Jesse is a kool aid drinking cheerleader and, as he’s said, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks - they are at sea and whatever I might think is completely meaningless. So - what keeps me interested is the constant level of dumb that is displayed. What REALLY keeps me laughing is how hard everyone works to convince me I’m wrong and Reid is a real mariner. Why do you or Jesse or anyone else care? Why do you get angry? Why do you try to prove me wrong? Reid is a panhandling con man with a boat. He couldn’t get anyone to give him free rent and free utilities so he went to sea. His buddies put him and Soanya on the B Ark and said, “go for it.” And he did. It’s that simple. Except he didn’t really want to leave - he opened a blog pretending there would be discussion. Jesse doesn’t like the discussion so he blocks everything except things like “use one charcoal briquet per 50 degrees required” in a cardboard oven that works a lot like Reid’s solar oven.
I love it. And like I said to Jesse - keep showing me your reasoning ability. Here’s the kool aid drinker’s latest from right above: “Too respond to their usual bull, worthless bullheaded and wrong points all, is just beneath the dignity of anyone who thinks for themselves.” See - Jesse is thinking for himself and I’m not. And so, being a person thinking for himself, he says - for the third or fourth or fifth time that it’s beneath his dignity to say anything,
See why I enjoy it? Now - let’s see if I’ve trained Jessie finally. If I have, he won’t say anything. If I haven’t, he’ll say again how it’s beneath his dignity to respond. But he’ll go ahead anyway.
September 22nd, 2007 - 9:12 am
Good for you jessie/ chuckxx/ anonymous/ swan70/ brad. Restraint is good - as I’ve been trying to teach you. But now I’m bored again with no dope to bait
By the way - how much force DOES it take to bend that tube? If it’s so strong and the boat is so well built, why did it bend at all? The claimed “collision” must have been at an angle since it didn’t drive the thing back into the boat - right? So why didn’t it just turn the boat right away without bending it?
You acknowledge I’m a “smart guy.” I can’t say the same about you.
September 22nd, 2007 - 1:58 pm
OMG! Robin where does all this anger come from? Therapy might help.
I came to this blog with an open mind and Robin I assumed you knew Reid and his boat and you were on a mission to stop this suicidal mission and save their ignorant asses.
How wrong I was, you only want to belittle the trip and the two people making it and throw a few jabs at Jesses while you are at it.
It seems everything that your opinions are based upon is only on what you have read and as the old saying goes believe nothing that you read and half of what you see.
As far as how much force does it take to bend the Bowsprit? What kind of dumb ass question is that? I can tell you it bent sideways because the ship it hit was moving forward and maybe it did turn the boat away but not without doing damage to something. If he hit a ship and did no damage, would you have believed that?
Wow! what have I gotten myself into?
September 22nd, 2007 - 2:06 pm
Jesse - I do not know if Reid and Soanya read these posts, but I want to say they are doing what I have always dreamed of doing and I give them my respect and admiration.
family and job allows me only an occasional weekend on my baby. Reid and Soanya you two are so lucky.
September 22nd, 2007 - 2:23 pm
So - you two are on a phone coordinating your posts? Jessie - you are so dumb it’s embarrassing. You are entirely too easy - you aren’t even paying attention to what you’re doing. And now you’re talking to yourself. It’s Parmesan you need to put in the kool aid, dumbass - not that cheese from under your foreskin.
But you’re right about why I’m here - I couldn’t care less if either of those idiots ever steps foot on land again. All I care about is that when that tub starts down, they keep their mouths shut and so do you. I don’t want to seem some good people risking their lives to save a couple of idiots.
And you don’t know what you’ve gotten yourself into? Another blackout, Jessie?
September 22nd, 2007 - 2:30 pm
I just have to add one more thing.
Robin you accuse Jesse of Ranting, that is funny.
Robin do read your own posts??????????
You are the cyber world king of rant.
September 22nd, 2007 - 2:43 pm
Robin-You still think I am Jesse? What kind of weird, schizophrenic, angry trip are you on?
I am also disturbed by your near instantaneous response to all of my posts, are you an angry wheelchair bound cripple who has never even been on a sailboat. Get a life!
Dear God, now you got me ranting.
Jesse- I am sorry I ever doubted the abilities and the boat of your friends.This person is a complete loser.
September 22nd, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Jesse - you’re so stupid it’s embarrassing. Take a look at the posts you wrote - they are not even ten minutes apart. You and “Brad” coordinating by phone? And then, on top of it, you pretend again on your own website. With half a million hits and nobody being rejected, why do you need to post yourself?
Yes - I’m in a wheelchair - I used to sail a lot but cannot any longer. So I visit sailing blogs and sites where most people make sense and are nice. You are the exception. Your hero is nuts and I enjoyed talking about it but you can’t stand to have any one say anything even a little critcal of your hero.
And now I’m bored with you - you are a piece of miserable shit, Jessie. You have no soul and you for sure have never sailed a boat out of sight of land. You are a wannabe who trails around behind a loser and his little chickie who you wish you could get a piece of but were always afraid to try. But you’re boring and I’m not interested in playing with you any longer. Which means, since you have bored everyone else to tears, you’ll just have to go fuck yourself.
September 22nd, 2007 - 11:03 pm
i’m surprized at the hostility here too. i have already expressed my opinions about r and s’s voyage; i believe the boat is not capable and ill prepared for the intended journey. it needs a haul out to be properly repaired and the bottom antifouled. it needs some sails that will stand up to gale force winds and not disintegrate as they are already doing from years of u/v.
thus far both r and s enjoy drifting rather than sailing, which considerably reduces the interest of this blog as its hardly ‘challenging’ to drift around with a truck load of dried food and parmesan cheese. they have yet to sail in any winds over 30 knots and that only very briefly in a squall. when they did start sailing in close to 20 knots for a couple of weeks, they complained about how uncomfortable it was. so in effect, the blog should be called drifting 1000 days at sea.
i am convinced the boat won’t last long in the southern ocean, if indeed r takes it there. i have a feeling he is just prolonging calling it quits in order to keep receiving donations to his paypal.
reid is obviously exhausted from his attempts at repair and singlehanding; soanya says she is busy staying out of the sun and salt spray and is hiding below, not that she would know what to do anyway, she’s never been shown and the boat is too big for a girl anyway without big winches everywhere. i reiterate that the blog master does not publish comments from concerned sailors; even comments with pertinant advice and suggestions, yet he consistantly publishes comments from landlubbers who are attracted to the romance of this story without having a clue as to what makes a voyage safe and a boat seaworthy. by the by, that is absolutely the blog master himself in duelling voices, very childish and dishonest.
September 23rd, 2007 - 9:08 am
One would think, if Jesse wants to help make the blog interesting and raise money, he would encourage sailors to post. The non-sailors have repeatedly expressed their interest in the “technical” details and have asked Soanya if she knows anything at all about the southern ocean. The question was ignored and the blog moved on to its regularly inane comments. Any story - even one that is unfolding - has to have some drama, a goal and some interference in achieving that goal if it is to be interesting to anyone other than the story teller. But Jesse prevents that interest by blocking anything he considers critical. You should, Jesse, be emphasizing the danger and the efforts to meet and overcome that danger. That danger includes doing stupid things. Stowe insists he’s some kind of astronaut. Even though he’s a space cadet you could make an interesting story out of it. When I suggested that, your response was “thanks for telling us how you would conduct your own experiment. Now go away.”
The real trouble is, Reid can attract followers and money. The dock and the food and the sails and the CARD and all the other stuff wasn’t given to Jesse — Reid got it. It’s not Jesse on the tv program. It’s not Jesse the artist. Reid attracts inanity which could lead to money even with his bs preaching on the blog. But when someone says something other than “hallelujah”, Jesse ridicules it or blocks it. That’s why Reid attracts people and Jesse attracts flies. You need a new blogmeister - one who has some sense of what it’s really about and how it could be turned into something interesting that will also raise money.
September 23rd, 2007 - 10:10 am
yawn
September 23rd, 2007 - 10:21 am
Exactly, Jesse. That’s my point exactly. See how much more you understand when you’re not drinking or smoking or snuffing? Boring. Yawn inducing. You even do it to yourself. Now - get someone who cares and do something about it. Quick - before the little creepies come back and take over again.
September 24th, 2007 - 9:06 am
Jesse, I hate keep up this silliness but last night I had an epiphany. The angry dude in a wheel chair with a chicks name AKA/Robin is; blue/Julie/Silly…….”He who is the first to blame should be the first to be accused”
Every one of his posts has more anger then I have ever seen on the Internet and the same writing style.
It seems Reid and Soanya have only one enemy and thousands of friends.
Jesse, if you would like to respond, my email is racecars1@aol.com
Robin, Blue or whoever you are, don’t even think about it.
September 24th, 2007 - 9:26 am
i’m not robin, and nothing could interest me less than racecars. i’m not an ‘enemy’ of anyone; i meerly stated my opinion. i guess its frustrating for the blog master that he can not delete comments from this site the way he does on his blog and he instead finds solace (between epiphanies) in multiple user names and attempts to discredit differing view points. i am a sailor, not a landlocked, middle aged fan dancer or a race car fanatic; illustrative examples of reid’s supporters.
September 24th, 2007 - 10:56 am
See? You make my point again, Jessie: when you smoke dope you make no sense. And when you spend a night smoking and drinking, you not only don’t make sense - you lose any semblance of originality. And when you smoke and drink and don’t get enough sleep, you have what you call an “epiphany.” Everybody else calls it a hangover.
However, while I find you comical you ought to be concerned about listening to the voices in your head and talking to yourself. Talking to yourself while you pretend you’re talking to someone else is a sure sign of hallucinating. You been dropping acid on top of all the other stuff?
Take your own advice - believe nothing you read and half of what you see (it’s in one of your posts up above) Then you too will say the “collision” is a lie and all the stuff you are writing is bs.
Get some sleep.
September 24th, 2007 - 11:31 am
Jessie - what’s going on over there? No one is writing anymore? Or are you blocking them? You said you had half a million hits and thousands of commenters - what’s up? All I see lately is you pretending to be a couple of other people (including Swan) saying sweetness to Reid and Soanya. Where’s Amber and her helpful tips? Where’s Chuckxx? Hey - I see Reid finished with the leaks and rigging. Anybody gonna say how he solved the problem of water outside pushing back when he tried to push epoxy in the holes? Got the bottom clean too, huh? Snow shovel? Or did he use his fingernails?
It’s dying, Jessie - dying because it’s so boring. Couple of homeless dopes floating around in a sponge full of dried food - living like roaches in an abandoned kitchen. Listing the “top ten reasons” to be bobbing around in a sinking tub out of sight (supposedly - remember, don’t believe anything you read) of land. What’s interesting about that? And a hallucinating master of the blog pretending to be lots of people so it will look like somebody cares. How’s the cash flow, Jess? Lots of supporters still?
I’m not angry, Jess - I’m amused. My body is broken but, fortunately, my mind is sound. You apparently have a sound body ….
Please write when you’re sober again. It’s more fun when you don’t babble.
September 24th, 2007 - 11:42 am
Robin/Blue/……. who ever said I was a race car Fanatic? It was my nick name as a kid. Do not try and second guess me or even try to figure me out. You still think I am Jesse, lol, you idiot.
I feel sad for you, so much anger, hate, and jealously you must cry yourself to sleep every night.
There are good programs and meds for people like you.
This is my last response to Robin/…..I refuse to get caught up in your world of anger and hate.
September 24th, 2007 - 2:06 pm
Your right Swan70
September 24th, 2007 - 2:34 pm
Robin-Get a life.
September 24th, 2007 - 3:07 pm
Robin u r weird
September 24th, 2007 - 4:28 pm
LOL!
September 24th, 2007 - 4:36 pm
Gee Jess - I don’t know what brought that on but it sure didn’t take long to start again: “This is my last response to Robin/…..I refuse to get caught up in your world of anger and hate.” That was a couple hours ago. And now you’ve started a “We Hate Robin Club?” I had no idea of my power over you. But - like it is with dogs - be firm but fair and they will obey.
September 24th, 2007 - 4:39 pm
You’re not just boring any more, jessie - it’s embarrassing to be in conversation with you. Go talk to yourself over at your other place - the one with the thousands of friends and hundreds of thousands of hits. You’re banned from this site.
September 25th, 2007 - 12:02 pm
Robin,
I’ve been following this mess because Suzanna the girl who was suppose to go on this voyage for three years is my friend. Jessie, really you’ve been writing for Reid since 2004. What a liar! Considering Suz doesn’t know you and was doing all Reid’s writing how can this be. She didn’t even leave the boat till May of 2005. Her cat was on the boat till September 2005. Blog didn’t even start till October 2005. Get my point! Yes Robin, want the real story? Reid ran drugs with the boat. For that fact the all the brothers did. Suzanna obtained a copy of the paper work after Reid decided to throw away all her belongings that the had in a mutual storage. Before she left he stole her phone book. Reid of course denies what an ass he was but he called several of her friends whose numbers he did not have including mine. Yeah right Reid! The experiments he says he’s done on his voyages again a lie. She again has the paper work to prove it. Reid had to leave the pier because he was being kicked off. They needed to renovate. As for Soanya hmmm she met Reid in 2003 that makes her 17. She was constantly hanging around taking pictures including ones of Suzanna. Reid’s brother was more into her Reid was busy with every other 20 year old. He has a painting called “I am connected to all the women of the world” and god knows he tried on the pier. Even when Soanya was on the boat slaving for him he was romancing Launa. Incidentally she told us the stocker stories. Thank-God Suzanna finally got wise and moved on. None of her friends ever understood why she trashed her life with him. She’s an amazing actress and singer and when she left him she stared in “Batboy” in Boston even though Reid said she was getting over him. Hey Jess if your hero was so right why is she constantly working in film and TV? Reid’s website still has her writing check out www.xplorefacts.blogspot.com to see who had the brains. Oh yeah one more tibit the carvings Reid takes such pride in were done by his first wife Iris who by the way is an oceanographer from the University of Hawaii and has won awards for her art. Judging from Reids Parrot that’ll never happen. Reid takes credit for other peoples talent and now you Jessie exploit it. Thank-God for the Robins of thw world that see though this bullshit!
September 25th, 2007 - 1:02 pm
uh huh - No more hate, right Jessie? Getting on with your life, right Jessie? Still smokin’ the funny weed. You’ve been banned, Jessie. That’s right, Jessie. Banned.
September 25th, 2007 - 2:53 pm
Any word yet on how their silent yet stalwart third crew member is faring?……….
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September 25th, 2007 - 3:52 pm
http://attachments.techguy.org/attachments/85612d1156132866/img_1582-ewe.jpg
September 25th, 2007 - 3:54 pm
I meant to say the effort to trade the parmesan for something a little spicier to enjoy during the long, boring nights was successful.
September 25th, 2007 - 4:45 pm
WOW, this has been a journey. Sailfastandfree, we shall meet. Don’t know when don’t know where but you are getting a boot in the nuts and I get a free meal and bed for a night. That’s freedom.
September 25th, 2007 - 5:47 pm
Once agian. To really show case this hysterical VOYAGE……..
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/RickLaPaz/Misc%20Web%20Photos/shelves20o20cheese.gif
September 25th, 2007 - 8:42 pm
Hey Jesse and Swandick, what do you say to We love Robin? Guess Jesse will try to paint her as a liar but she’s got my vote for being on the up-and-up! And Swandick, you still owe Robin an apology for your crude cripple comment…that’s something Jesse would say, by the way!
September 25th, 2007 - 10:23 pm
In a post below, you say the following:
“He is now approaching 150 days at sea, having been hit by a 300? freighter early on which destroyed his bowsprit and headstays.”
Isn’t that incorrect? Didn’t HE hit the freighter when he violated international law by failing to keep proper watch at sea? Don’t play with the truth.
September 26th, 2007 - 12:34 am
This is, without a doubt, the finest slow motion train wreck I’ve ever witnessed in Gore-Ville. The sychophants of this altruistic parasitical Life Gypsy are to be commended for your ability to operate a keyboard while blindfolded by Reid’s Led Zeppilen-like concept of reality. Misty Mountain Hop would be a much better name for their floating goulash of cement and cheese that they wishfully call a boat. I find it utterly unbelieveable that there is even one fan of this tragedy-in-the-making. Hopefully, they’ll be near a developed country when the time comes to save the cheese………
September 26th, 2007 - 8:31 am
Jessie - aren’t you going to post the truth about your hero as “We Love Robin” said? I tried but it hasn’t shown up on the 1000 days blog yet. Surely you won’t block Reid and Suz’ friends? That would be evil - the poor guy floating around out there completely helpless. He’s your prisoner - he knows only what you say and let him hear from others. Do you have no sense of duty to him? No sense that the truth should out? It’s not about you, Jessie - it’s about the two people out there who think you are their friend. Who think they can trust you. Are you going to ignore that faith just to protect your own self-image, Jessie?
September 26th, 2007 - 10:59 am
Aseawolf you said “you still owe Robin an apology for your crude cripple comment”
Not gonna happen!
I have the utmost respect for ANY wheelchair bound individual especially the ones that pass me hooting and hollering in joy as they pass me on the ski slopes strapped to their special contraptions (last year it was a women with no legs and one arm) or the men and women in wheelchairs who pass me like I am standing still in marathons.
Robin is a self absorbed cripple who spends his days pounding angrily at his keyboard attempting to make himself feel better by bringing down others.
I have seen your angry posts at other blogs on the net and like I said before. GET A LIFE!
September 26th, 2007 - 11:33 am
Calm down, jessie - everybody understands it’s YOU who always gets so upset. Wow - quite a guy. Sails a 70 foot Swan, Races motorcycles. Runs marathons and skis. But - do you remember this post (number 46 up there) “Jesse - I do not know if Reid and Soanya read these posts, but I want to say they are doing what I have always dreamed of doing and I give them my respect and admiration. family and job allows me only an occasional weekend on my baby. Reid and Soanya you two are so lucky.
Wow - must be some kind of job. You keep a 70 foot Swan tied up so you can use it on the occasional weekend. Hell of a deal - good pay, once in a while on the big yacht, sometimes go out and race the Harley (yes - I remember Chuckxx and his claim to running a Harley site), sometimes run a marathon (do you train for that in your spare time? Or just kinda do a Reid Stowe and count on your many years of experience and innate abilities?) And, of course, skiing - I’ll bet it’s either giant slalom or downhill racing - right Jess? Sounds to me like YOU’re the lucky one - not Reid and Soanya. Oh - and I forgot - you have to make time to blog.
Hey, fella - with all you’ve got going for you - boat, motorcycle, cars, running, skiing - how the heck did you wind up doing this stuff? I mean - you run around the internet watching posters who you can now recognize? “I have seen your angry posts at other blogs on the net and like I said before, GET A LIFE.” What does your wife have to say about you surfing sites to find angry posters and then taking so much time to write bullshit when the time could be better used taking her and the kids for a sail on the expensive yacht? Is she also a fan of Reid’s and Soanya’s?
Oh - the cripple thing. Don’t worry about it. I meet assholes all the time. The ones that bother me are the ones I know are smart enough to know better. But paranoid schizophrenics? I feel sorry for them battling all their personal demons. I was thinking that while I watched the videos, Jesse. You’re the bald guy with the palsy that shakes in tempo, right? I thought for a while you might be the guy in underwear who keeps popping up (and down) with no shirt. But then I thought, “nah - can’t be Jessie - he could never be in the background.” It fit because that guy’s making such a fool of himself but the bald guy is really you - kind of glazed over and only about half in the world. Talking to the chickie who says she’s not from this planet. Yup - that’s Jessie - my B Ark guy.
September 26th, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Jealous? Still think I am Jesse? (sad) and Harley’s, never, BMW R1100S.
You got one thing right, I am bald and proud of it.
Your buddy Jesse (or is it Jessie I can’t spell names worth shit) must be rolling on the floor after reading your last post.
September 26th, 2007 - 12:20 pm
Robin, FYI, I am far from super human. I have run two marathons in my life and did not finish either one, ski once or twice a year (slowly) and no longer race motorcycles.
What do you do?
September 26th, 2007 - 1:45 pm
Look back through your earlier posts - sure looks like you’re running, skiing, racing and boating. But - not important What I don’t understand is why you keep pretending. But that’s also not important.
Me? I have a desk job far from the sea. I have a computer research company that specializes in internet research and people location for various state and the federal government. I’d prefer to be sailing again but we do what we must.
September 27th, 2007 - 11:23 am
Robin - I was online looking for sailing programs for the hanicapped and was astounded to see there were none, you can play golf, go fishing Kyacking, drive a race car or even have a three wheeled motorcycle custom built for your needs, but I can’t find any info on sailing.
Now I do feel bad for you, there must be thousands of others like you, it’s not fair.
Hmmm, Could this be a new business opportunity for a non profit company/charity?
September 27th, 2007 - 12:18 pm
How sweet of you. But, you missed this site, obviously:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1454270.stm
You need to post something - anything - on the 1000 day blog. As you know, it’s dying. And, you ought to come back to SA - lots of fun over there today.
September 27th, 2007 - 12:20 pm
Robin is right, I sent you a love letter Jesse.
September 29th, 2007 - 10:18 am
Hey swandick, first of all, I’ve only posted in three different blogs — the same three you’ve posted on, Mr. GET A LIFE — and the only time it’s been nasty is in retaliation for either vulgar, lying or crude remarks from Jesse, Sailfastandfree and you, moronic swandick! And secondly, you STILL owe Robin and all handicapped people an apology. Oh, and about changing your opinion of the validity of Reid, Jesse and their whole scam, you ain’t welcome on the side of us skeptics. I live in New York so have been aware of this scam since the first day because of the news generated by their departure and I wasn’t able to post a comment then because I innocently questioned (nicely, politely) the possibility of this 1000 days actually happening I knew something was fishy from Day 2! You’re figuring it out on day What? 158? Get bent, swandick.
You GET A LIFE, swandick, but keep posting because it gives us something to laugh about and ridicule!
September 29th, 2007 - 12:40 pm
Aseawolf - I always thought being open minded was an attribute.
I did not have the luxury of following this adventure for 158 days. More like 30 days for me and how can a sailor not be intrigued by 2 people attempting to spend 1000 days at sea in a home made boat.
I might have questioned my own support for the journey sooner however the person who was educating me on the negative aspects of this trip (Robin) started making weird accusations that I and every other person who made a positive post was this Jessie person. That did two things;
#1 it put me in defensive mode.
#2 it made me question every thing he posted as possibly coming from a mind that was not working properly.
What put me back on the fence was two things;
#1 - Two negative posts I read from people who know Reid well.
#2 - I was reading a touching well written post that supported Reid 100% Then the guy writes “My Grandfather laid the corner stones for NYC” (What BS) I think NYC is older then my house and my house was built before George Washington was born.
I still say Robin is an angry/crazy cripple and when he gets away from his computer for a day or two and/or makes at least an occasional positive post I will apologize.
As for you aseawolf “swandick”, “getbent” and “you ain’t welcome on the side of us skeptics”
What are you twelve years old or just mentally challenged? Go play in your sand box and leave the adults alone.
September 29th, 2007 - 3:24 pm
Swan - I told you before, I don’t expect or want an apology from you. You are an asshole, you always will be an asshole and I don’t care what assholes think about me or anything elsel. If you think I’m an “angry/crazy cripple” you can imagine what I think of you. On second thought, you don’t have the capacity for imagination - you are ruled by emotion. The facts don’t matter, if you don’t like the messenger, the facts he’s bringing obviously are not facts - right dumbshit?
Second - you are not simply an asshole, you are a terminally stupid asshole. If you really are NOT Jesse than you are not simply terminally stupid - you also are terminally gullible with no ability to reason. You decide this flaming fucking idiot Stowe and his mustachioed ho are real seafarers because you don’t like me? Stupid at best.
Here - figure this out since you are so convinced they really did hit a ship and simply bounce. By the way - if you can comprehend anything at all, look up Bernoulli’s theorem. Among other things for which it is important is it explains why airplanes fly. It also explains why that lying son of a bitch did not bounce off a fast moving ship. He’d be dead, ground into hash by the props and spit out for fish food if he had - with Soanya. Remember the basics, dumbshit - high speed, low pressure. The water alongside the ship is moving faster than the water away from it - therefore, if idiot and idiotess hit it, they’d have stuck to it like a sponge - especially since moving that tub is like hauling a 70 ton sponge.
Then, of course you have evidence of what REALLY did not happen - how did the figurehead survive when the bowsprit broke?
COLLISION WITH A TANKER: THE REAL STORY
On the picture for the 1000 days of hell blogsite, there is a picture of the Schooner Anne. Notice that there is a delicate wooden carving, about 10 feet long which is attached to the end of the bowsprit, and points forward.
If you hit a 70 foot 60 ton Anne with a freighter, with sufficient force to break off the steel tube bowsprit, then you would expect the carving to be smashed to pieces as it would have to be broken before the end of the bowsprit could touch the freighter.
Well then, how is it that it is shown in another picture in this thread, laying on the starboard deck, against the cabin ?
Somebody else asked the question “What is that in the bottom corner of the picture”.
Apologies but it took a bit of detective work to identify it.
In Reid’s site, one of his crew says that the carving is demountable, and what an ordeal it is to remove it, and how dangerous it is to do so. There is no mention in his log that he removed it prior to the impact.
The fact that the delicate carving has been retrieved intact and complete, tells me that the bowsprit tube failed structurally, and not as a result of an impact which would certainly have seen it smashed and lost..
MORE HOLES IN REID’S STORY THAN SWISS CHEESE..
September 29th, 2007 - 3:31 pm
Robin - LOL! You really need to get a grip and settle down.
September 29th, 2007 - 4:16 pm
It’s all in fun robin. Something to cheer you up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8&mode=related&search=
September 29th, 2007 - 4:31 pm
However - the dope did NOT hit any 300 foot, 80,000 ton ship moving at 20 or 25 knots. It simply did not happen. Look up Bernoulli
September 29th, 2007 - 4:48 pm
Then what the hell bent it? That is heavy gauge steel. They even went to the extra work and expense to spiral weld Vs seam weld for more strength and before you ask, you can generally tell the thickness of steel just by looking at the width of the welds. You think the jib did it?
September 29th, 2007 - 4:50 pm
Did you like song?
September 29th, 2007 - 5:22 pm
I took a second look at Reid’s bowsprit.
Think of those tubular metal vertical parking lot barriers. It might have been the only thing that saved his “sponge” “b-ark” in the collision.
September 29th, 2007 - 5:26 pm
I have been forced to within a few feet of large fast moving ships on the C&D canal and was never sucked in.
Fact is I was always amazed that such large ships put out such small wakes.
September 29th, 2007 - 6:13 pm
ok. you’re right. I’m wrong. Now can I have my beer in peace? Go to bed.
September 30th, 2007 - 7:51 am
at the beginning of this thread the blogmaster speaks of 50,000 hits a day on this blog. the actual statistics can be viewed at
http://counter6.bravenet.com/index.php?id=393637&usernum=495246404
September 30th, 2007 - 8:02 am
Trouble is, one has to be a member of Bravenet. Can you tell us generally?
September 30th, 2007 - 8:16 am
i’m not a member of bravenet and it shows for me?
seems to be around 1400 hits yesterday for example. more than half of these are first time viewers every day.
September 30th, 2007 - 8:20 am
i got to the statistics page by clicking on the counter at the bottom of the july archive page of the blog. its been removed since then and j will probably remove it now. maybe that will work for you.
September 30th, 2007 - 8:22 am
I’ll try that - I was using the link in your post and keep getting this:
The system has failed to log you in.
Please verify your username and password and try your login again. If you can not remember your username and/or password, try our Lost Password utility to retrieve them.
Please Try Logging in Again …. click here.
September 30th, 2007 - 8:25 am
Got it - thanks
September 30th, 2007 - 8:32 am
I see my reply to Jesse/Swan yesterday after he told me how “it’s all in fun” didn’t get posted. What I said, essentially, Jesse, is that it IS all in fun. In fact, the whole thing is a joke. But you have been taking it so seriously and reacting so badly I could not resist taking the shots. You really ARE an asshole but a harmless asshole. Know what else? But for you, your hero probably would have simply passed unnoticed to all but his cult. You - all by yourself - made the blog what it is. You started with an incompetent, homeless loser and his street chickie and added pompous arrogance. How could we resist THAT combination? Suzanna turns the lights on and the roaches scatter. How can we possibly avoid squishing you and them? The ancient mariner is about to float off to his valhalla and that will leave you to explain. What are you going to say, Swan/Jesse/Mike/Erik? Or are you simply going to disappear as well?
September 30th, 2007 - 9:07 am
“I have been forced to within a few feet of large fast moving ships on the C&D canal and was never sucked in.
Fact is I was always amazed that such large ships put out such small wakes.”
Swan 70: Shipping traffic on the C&D averages only 6 to 8 knots depending on the tide, a good part of the way with a pilot boat by its side as it switches the Delaware pilot for the Maryland pilot (or vice versa). You bet it was a structural failure of the bowsprit, not a direct collision.
September 30th, 2007 - 12:06 pm
What happened to the bowsprit we may never know.
But if I were a Reid basher I would be having more fun with - “hahahah dumb ass sailed his boat into the side of a 300′ ship hahaha”
Then - “haha his bowsprit failed haha”
September 30th, 2007 - 12:36 pm
Author: Swan70′
Comment:
What happened to the bowsprit we may never know.
But if I were a Reid basher I would be having more fun with - “hahahah dumb ass sailed his boat into the side of a 300′ ship hahaha”
Then - “haha his bowsprit failed haha”
It’s not “we” who will never know - it’s you, Jesse, etc. But - thanks for telling me how you would make my comment. I’m not a “reid basher”, by the way. As I’ve tried to explain to you several times - that idiot doesn’t see anything I write. And, as I said, I wrote him and chickie off long ago. It’s YOU I like bashing. You because you are both stupid and resilient. You just keep coming back for more. Here’s what I like - “idiot thinks he hit a ship and junior idiots believe him - hahahahaha”
October 1st, 2007 - 10:35 am
Jesse/Swan:
Jesse - you’re still blocking me at the blog site. If you’re still looking for advice, read up on kwashiorkor.
This from the Harvard School of Public Health:
“Around the world, millions of people don’t get enough protein. Protein malnutrition leads to the condition known as kwashiorkor. Lack of protein can cause growth failure, loss of muscle mass, decreased immunity, weakening of the heart and respiratory system, and death.”
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/protein.html
October 13th, 2007 - 9:49 pm
too true. the censorship on the 1000 days site is unbelievable. i commented on seeing his boat building pics and that they should reid and bros cutting down trees for masts and booms, yet on the blog reid claims the masts and sampson post were from the king’s mast forest in denmark and asked when they had been changed….censored. i also posted a comment on ditch bags and how important they are and what should be in them….censored. i even posted a comment on how cool the whale was (but signed it)…censored. the comments i posted (anonymous) dripping with compliments on his fishing…posted.
how anyone could get behind this so called voyage is beyond me. only the completely ignorant could see this as anything other than folly or farce.
October 15th, 2007 - 11:48 am
Anyone else having problems getting on the 1000 day blog at SA? I can log onto the SA home page with no problem, but it is much more difficult getting on THE 1000 day blog.
October 15th, 2007 - 12:02 pm
You were not paying attention when Elle explained. You MUST start all posts with something like, “my darling, courageous Reid - my sweetest hero ….” and then tell he and Soanya how you admire them and wish you could tear yourself from your desk and join them in their venture - your dream.
Then you can talk - Jesse doesn’t always read beyond the bullshit. But it won’t work if you don’t know the code to get in.
October 15th, 2007 - 2:09 pm
Robin - What?
I can not log onto SA except for the home page. (90% of the time)
I have no problem visiting the 1000 day site, it’s the 1000 day blog @ SA I am having problems with.
October 15th, 2007 - 2:15 pm
Well - either you have to be recognized as a fauning acolyte or as someone (like me) who knows what he’s talking about. Here are the latest posts - site came right up for me. Of course, with crap like this, what’s the point in going there?
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Brad said…
Thanks for formatting the text in white background rather than black. I love to track their progress and read the daily stories! In past readings I needed 5 or 10 minutes before my eyes would adjust back.
9:44 PM
****** said…
Brad,
I happened to be using a friend’s Mac for these last two postings, and they came out that way. I agree that this is easier on the eyes. However, when I changed the white font/black background on the blog a long time ago, I had numerous complaints (immediately) that they preferred it the old way, and so I changed it back.
Brad,
A friendly Word of advice, why are you subjecting yourself to the sailing a***** forum abuse still? When the going gets tough the tough get going out to sea and the weenies stay writing their crap in SA. love em or leave ‘em i say. Spare yourself man, it ain’t worth the unwarranted hate they make.
5:31 AM
HOH_Dan said…
Wow! I look in on this everyday just
to see how it is going. I must say, this is a great trip to look after. Would love to do something like this
but stop here and thereon the way… God Speed…………
P>S> After all that time at sea.
I wonder if you will want to comeback to the real world mess.???
9:20 AM
October 15th, 2007 - 2:28 pm
Robin - I must not be making myself clear.
Sailing Anarchy is where I am having my problem.
October 15th, 2007 - 2:56 pm
Oh - sorry - I guess I wasn’t reading carefully enough. I have the same kind of problem and, when I finally do get in, it doesn’t seem that busy. Sometimes it just grinds and then comes back that explorer can’t display the page. Sometimes it comes up after several minutes but won’t go to the next page for a very long time. Maybe it’s a dns attack? but - more likely it’s their server. I have never had a problem at night.
Are you taking anyone up on the bet they don’t go much farther south? Or do you think they really mean to keep on going? Assuming there really is a boat out there, I cannot imagine anyone nuts enought to take that thing into the kind of conditions they should be expecting. All kidding and all meanness aside, they should be stopped for their own good. and for the good of the people who will feel duty bound to try to save them.
October 15th, 2007 - 3:01 pm
Swan 70: Their server must have been overloaded. SA was rally slow for awhile. Robin: Listen up. He was talking about SA, not Jesse’s stupid site.
October 15th, 2007 - 3:05 pm
Robin - I just posted this question @ 1000 days (not SA) and I will be curious to see if they post it. If the answer is no to both the Schooner Anne is a death trap.
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