Conference unifix::sailing

    Dave
    
       Thanks for the heads up. Excellant show. I videotaped the 1.5 hour
    show. The only part missing was the Englishmen flipping out in the
    roaring 40's with a tirade of F!&^ this and F!&% that over and over
    again when some gear was malfunctioning, and he had been battered one
    long night too many. Petergill showed small portions of the tape during
    his slide show, but the TV program was much better.

    Yup, I'll ditto that. One of the best sailing shows I've seen. Twelve
    finish from a fleet of twenty, and one lost. Talk about your ultimate
    sport.

    I second the last comment - one of the best shows I've seen on TV. 
    
    I called the 800 number after the show to see if could get a copy of 
    the tape in PAL format for a friend downunder - their switchboard was 
    jammed for over an hour.  When I finally got thru no-one knew what I 
    was talking about ("PAL - what's that; NTSC - what's that?")  And I 
    thought it was a small world.
    
    bsh
    

    Hi ... I was on a business trip last week and missed the show ... is
    there any chance that I can borrow a tape from someone who taped it?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Tom 
    
    (PCBUOA::MOORET)

    Can someone post the 800 number for ordering the tape?  I would like to
    get a copy.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Brian

    Unfortunately I wrote it down while it was on the screen at the end of 
    the program but have since lost it.
    
    I am sure your local PBS station could give it to you.
    
    Barrie

I stumbled across the BOC film on the Discovery channel.  

Finally something good out of cable.  It is showing on
Nashua cable again this Saturday at (12:00 ? pm I beleive).

It was an interesting show.  It discussed the double dismasting 
of Isabelle Ausiterre (sic).  In passing they mentioned that at
the time of rescue, she was very far south.  It did indicate 
that she was trying to get to an island where a new mast was
being delivered, but it did not give any indication of her
intended route to there.  Forinstance, I do not know if she
had stayed south for high winds, laid a rhumb line, are was 
trying to get up to the relatively beneign Roaring 40's.

Some of the onboard shots were impressive.  I will admit that
I was facinated by looking at the seas (but only from video 
tape).

Doug
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    Doug
    
       As I remember it, she has heading south because there were a set
    of French Controlled islands where they could fly a new mast to her.
    Just didn't make it.

The BOC show mentioned that she was heading to where the mast could
be delivered.  I had no idea that these islands were even more south.
Makes the South Georgian Islands (south east of the Falklands sound
downright balmy.

Thanks for the insight.  I thought maybe it was something weird like 
staying below a line of bad weather before heading north.

The OZ conference was all over what a waste of time this was.  My brother
lives in Perth and said that though treaties obligate Australia to
search and rescue in that part of the world, the general populace
was unhappy about the expense.  Greg had talked to a couple of OZ 
sailors who beleived it was excellent training.  Apparrently, it was
rotten weather adn at the very end or the endurance range for the 
aircraft.  The destroyer dispatched also had a rough go of it.

Doug

    
    	The so called destroyer is a Frigate, look a little closer you will
    see it is one of the  FFG7 class ships.  The Autralian Navy purchased a
    couple of them from us.  Carries two ASW naval version Blackhawk 
    helicopters, a surface to air missle launcher, a rapid fire 5 inch gun,
    a phalanx gatling gun, and some truly worthless NATO standard guns.
    
    	Before landing in the computer game I was a Naval Architect at the
    firm that did the design for the FFG7 class.
    
    
    Forrest

    In the South Pacfic museum in Christchurch NZ there's an exhibit about
    sailor rescue and survival equipment in the southern latitudes.
    Apparently there was a series of wrecks of sailing ships in the late
    1800s that prompted the NZ government to set up a program to help
    stranded sailors. A large number of tiny islands (not sure of the
    number but it was impressive, perhaps ~100?) scattered all over the
    ocean down there have small huts with provisions and radio
    transmitters. I guess rescuing sailors is a tradition that Australia
    and NZ have had for a while. (Not to mention similar coast guard
    efforts in the UK, US, etc...)
    
    Doug.