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Bajaboy
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Is this the same family....
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/11/211072485/fam...
Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing 'Where God Led Us'
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August 11, 201311:14 AM
The Gastonguays hoped to reach the vast archipelago nation of Kiribati, part of which is shown in this 2001 photo.
The Gastonguays hoped to reach the vast archipelago nation of Kiribati, part of which is shown in this 2001 photo.
Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images
A leap of faith that sent an Arizona family bound for the South Pacific in a sailboat has returned them in an airplane after a harrowing ordeal at sea
that saw them adrift and nearly out of food in one of the remotest stretches of ocean on the planet.
Hannah Gastonguay, 26, and her husband, Sean, 30, were fed up with abortion, homosexuality, taxes and the "state-controlled church" and so "decided to
take a leap of faith and see where God led us," she . With them were Sean's father and the couple's two daughters, one 3 years old and the other an
infant.
A few weeks into their ultimately 91 days at sea, the Gastonguays encountered "squall after squall after squall" that damaged their boat. Originally
on a heading for the archipelago nation of Kiribati near the international dateline, they changed course to the Marquesas Islands, but were unable to
reach them either.
Along the way, they apparently suffered damage to their mast and, unable to set a foresail, made little westward progress.
They were down to "some juice and some honey" and whatever fish they could catch when a passing Canadian cargo ship tried to help out with supplies.
But when it came alongside, it did even more damage to the tiny sailboat.
Eventually, the family was picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel.
"The captain said, 'Do you know where you're at? You're in the middle of nowhere,' " Hannah Gastonguay told the AP.
From there, the five were transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and, after three weeks, dropped off in Chile.
Gastonguay told the AP that she never thought the family was going to die: "We believed God would see us through."
In Chile, police prefect Jose Luis Lopez told the newspaper Las Ultimas Noticias:
"They were looking for a kind of adventure; they wanted to live on a Polynesian island but they didn't have sufficient expertise to navigate
adequately," he said.
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tjsue
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It's the same family, read their names.
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BajaBlanca
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It takes all kinds.....
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Mulegena
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Can anybody dig up that other thread about "our" beached family?
"Raise your words, not your voice. It's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." ~Rumi
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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Mula
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Lea, William and kids stuck in Punto Cono last year?
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willardguy
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obvious to me they changed their names and reinvented themselves. are we still talking about turtle soup?
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DENNIS
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Maybe it's the McStays. 
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BajaNomad
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It's not the people from Punta Cono thread - who later all returned to the USA.
"Hannah Gastonguay, holding her baby Rahab, is followed by husband Sean and 3-year-old daughter Ardith as they disembark in San Antonio, Chile, on
Friday."
http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2013/aug/11/219115/
[Edited on 8-11-2013 by BajaNomad]
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We know we must go back if we live, and we don`t know why.
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angel_of_darknez
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You people just can't get over the fact that other people have lives that are not sitting behind a computer screen and complaining about those who do.
LOL
Ignorance is not wasted on you.
I leave judgement for those who have experienced the same. If you aren't to help and show love towards others you are here to do the exact opposite.
(Fall out of chair laughing) 
"I'm a DIVA and always will be"
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Bajahowodd
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If only. In this case, it was because of good old god.
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Pompano
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Christians are saying, "It's sure a tough crowd here on Nomads."
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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dtbushpilot
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Quote: Originally posted by angel_of_darknez  | You people just can't get over the fact that other people have lives that are not sitting behind a computer screen and complaining about those who do.
LOL
Ignorance is not wasted on you.
I leave judgement for those who have experienced the same. If you aren't to help and show love towards others you are here to do the exact opposite.
(Fall out of chair laughing)
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Welcome to Nomads angel, you'll fit right in around here...
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by angel_of_darknez | You people just can't get over the fact that other people have lives that are not sitting behind a computer screen and complaining about those who do.
LOL
Ignorance is not wasted on you.
I leave judgement for those who have experienced the same. If you aren't to help and show love towards others you are here to do the exact opposite.
(Fall out of chair laughing)
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This is a 2 year old thread you are commenting on for your first post here. Perhaps all is well now?
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blackwolfmt
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So understand dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up and make your stand and realize that your living in the golden years
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Bajahowodd
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I am having so much difficulty wrapping my head around this idea that religion in any form has a place in the secular world. Anyone care to tell me
just how the fundamentalist Christians in the US, especially including the end timers are any different than the Muslim crazies that are destroying
the Middle East?
A group decides to impose its beliefs on others. Doesn't matter where in the world it is happening. I am actually glad that I'm old.
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woody with a view
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religion has been the cause of more human death than all other causes other than natural causes.
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elgatoloco
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Amen. 
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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vgabndo
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The official national religion in the USA, and despite the First Amendment it is the official religion on our money and in the Pledge of Allegiance,
is easily identified as an Armageddon Cult. They won't be right until everyone is dead! Just look at one of the political parties for clear evidence
that a lot of people believe that there is no reason to plan for the future. Every single member of all three branches of the government identify as
Christian or some minor belief system.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Pompano
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Why do I get the feeling that this is a Public Service Announcement? 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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