copied from Facebook today. only contact info is Jeanne Pepler (Facebook) a photo of the boat is there, looks like a large white ketch.
CALLING ON MY BAJA FRIENDS!!! MY FRIENDS SANDI & PATRICK HAVE GONE OUT OF CONTACT SINCE DEC. 26TH 2017! THEY MADE LAST CONTACT FROM AT OR NEAR
CABO SAN LUCAS, SAILING NORTH TO SAN DIEGO. THEIR YACHT IS NAMED YACHT CRUZ! PLEASE SHARE, SO WE CAN HELP THEIR FAMILY, THE COAST GUARD FIND THEM! WE
NEED TO FIND THEM SAFE! Go YachtCruz!Bob and Susan - 1-13-2018 at 08:19 AM
hoping the missing be found, distressing to hear of the debris.
sending prayers for all those at sea and their loved ones at home. BajaMama - 1-18-2018 at 12:51 PM
There was a post on TalkBaja (FB) that indicated the outcome of this search was sad. The couple was not found alive.aguachico - 1-18-2018 at 07:09 PM
Fished Santo Tomas over the weekend. There was another family yacht sunk. kids survived with life jackets. The sunk north of PST and the kids were
found in La Bocana. The rapid spanish could lend it self to bad specifics
If not cruel, most often unforgiving. Storm conditions are unpredictable.
Many of us have sailed into conditions that turned out to be worse than forecast/expected or that we thought would be within our (and the boat's)
capabilities only to have things go wrong.
Fortunately (in our case), we came through with nothing worse than a miserable experience, some busted gear and a hard lesson learned.
A very sad situation.
That could happen to anyone who goes to sea.wilderone - 1-19-2018 at 02:17 PM
Boy, sad news all around.elgatoloco - 1-19-2018 at 03:13 PM
Bummer indeed. JZ - 1-19-2018 at 06:57 PM
Only a little further to go, too. wilderone - 1-20-2018 at 08:09 AM
They don't call it the Baja Bash for nothing. Life jackets ON would have helped.
A BIG Maybe there
MrBillM - 1-20-2018 at 11:22 AM
Life Jackets are always advisable and may have made a difference. Or, may not, depending on the storm conditions.
Are any details now apparent regarding the chronology of the disaster ? Did the yacht capsize or breakup ?
Having come close to going overboard a few times (both with someone else on board and a number of times solo), I heeded the advice often read and wore
a life jacket anytime on deck in addition to rigging and using jacklines even in calm weather.
Once, Previously I had been sailing alone about five miles offshore in a moderate breeze from Oceanside to San Diego when I slid on the wet foredeck
and almost went over. That event sold me on using jacklines.
We all make those mistakes.
This is an odd time to be making the run northward. Usually, those heading south leave in November and return
April/May. What was the thinking heading North during the (possible) storm cycle ?JZ - 1-20-2018 at 01:58 PM
