Couple sells everything for sailboat. It sinks on day 2
A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.
Within two days, their dream became a nautical nightmare.
On their way to Key West, Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh's voyage abruptly ended in John’s Pass off Madeira Beach, Fla., when their 28-foot sailboat struck something underwater Wednesday night.
"We hit something in about 8 or 9 feet of water and it stopped the boat completely," Broadwell told TV station WFTS.
Water flooded into the cabin, starting to sink their fantasy life. The couple grabbed social security cards, cash, IDs and their pug Remy as they called for rescue.
A ship arrived about an hour later, the Tampa Bay Times reported, but the water was too shallow for it to approach.
So the couple and Remy jumped in, leaving their dream vessel behind to capsize.
"Everything I've worked for, everything I've owned since I was a child, I brought with me. It's just floating away and there's nothing I can do," Walsh told WFTS.
Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000. It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported.
Now, it could cost thousands to remove Lagniappe from the channel.
Even with no savings and no place to live, the couple said they're not giving up on sailing again one day.
"The boat sank," Walsh told WFTS, "but our dreams didn't sink with the boat."
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
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February 11, 2018, 04:30 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
Bet they had never read a chart much less ever sailed before. I willing to wager the obstacle was marked on a chart.
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February 11, 2018, 04:31 PM
RogueJSK
quote:
...they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat...
...left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000...
...with no savings...
If you had to sell all your worldly possessions plus pony up your life savings in order to afford a $5,000 sailboat, you really need to fire your financial planner.
February 11, 2018, 04:34 PM
ryan81986
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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo: Bet they had never read a chart much less ever sailed before. I willing to wager the obstacle was marked on a chart.
From what I understand they had no training whatsoever, fixed up the boat themselves and didn't have any insurance.
February 11, 2018, 04:35 PM
RHINOWSO
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Originally posted by JALLEN: they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat...
Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000 . It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported.
When selling everything you own nets you $10k....
Remy the Puggy is the brains of the operation...
February 11, 2018, 04:35 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
I looked them up. Typical young idealistic couple with no clue.
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February 11, 2018, 04:35 PM
P220 Smudge
Glad the pug survived.
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February 11, 2018, 04:35 PM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by ryan81986: From what I understand they had no training whatsoever, fixed up the boat themselves and didn't have any insurance.
Sounds about right.
February 11, 2018, 04:37 PM
qcsmitty
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
...they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat...
...left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000...
...with no savings...
If you had to sell all your worldly possessions plus pony up your life savings in order to afford a $5,000 sailboat, you really need to fire your financial planner.
My thoughts exactly. This is not a sound retirement plan with life savings of $5k. Remy the Pug deserves better.
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February 11, 2018, 04:38 PM
sigmonkey
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
...they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat...
...left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000...
...with no savings...
If you had to sell all your worldly possessions plus pony up your life savings in order to afford a $5,000 sailboat, you really need to fire your financial planner.
They unfriended him from their Fakebook account before leaving Starbucks and setting sail.
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February 11, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jimbo54
With their lack of training, experience and common sense they are lucky to be alive. They're fortunate it happened when and where it did.
Jim
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February 11, 2018, 04:40 PM
Mars_Attacks
Gofundme starts in 3....2.....1
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February 11, 2018, 04:43 PM
Sailor1911
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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks: Gofundme starts in 3....2.....1
Already has.
They are a hit on the Sailboat Forum. Many experienced people there feeling bad for them but knowing how and why they sank.
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February 11, 2018, 04:44 PM
P220 Smudge
I guess these are the kind of people responsible for the numerous capsized or turtled hulls just sitting dead on the rocks thirty feet from shore all over coastal Florida. They didn't know what the hell they were doing and couldn't afford to do it in the first place, now a monument to their mistake just gets to sit in public view until it breaks up and goes under. Difference is, they got rescued and are on the hook for the cleanup. I hear the usual response to that sort of thing is to abandon the scene and the vessel.
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February 11, 2018, 04:45 PM
YooperSigs
I am not a dog person but it appears to me the Pugs face is saying "my owners are seagoing idiots".
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February 11, 2018, 04:50 PM
P220 Smudge
He's a pug. That expression could mean anything from "is it dinner time?" to "I really need to go take a shit."
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February 11, 2018, 04:53 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo: I looked them up. Typical young idealistic couple with no clue.
For chrissakes. I was imagining a couple in their sixties recently retired.
Furthermore, when I hear sell everything you own, I'm thinking a few hundred grand. $10,000?
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February 11, 2018, 04:58 PM
reflex/deflex 64
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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks: Gofundme starts in 3....2.....1
we can only hope. My cynical self says public assistance starts in 3...2...1...
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February 11, 2018, 04:59 PM
sdy
I wonder if they put the plug in
February 11, 2018, 05:07 PM
sigmonkey
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Remy the Puggy is the brains of the operation...
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