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24-10-2008, 12:54
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roberttigar
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 363
message in a bottle
I dropped a bottle into the atlantic as we were going from Fla to the
Bahamas
. 2 1/2 years later I got a letter from a young girl in
France
. She and her brother were playing on the beach after a storm and found the bottle. Long trip!!! Bob
24-10-2008, 16:32
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delmarrey
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,369
Images:
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I found a beach that washed up in a bottle.
Attached Thumbnails
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Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend, but the Kisses of the Enemy are Deceitful! ........
The measure of a man is how he navigates to a proper shore in the midst of a storm!
24-10-2008, 17:48
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Saildoggie
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: So CA. USA
Boat: OP's boats! Charter big cats and race big monos!
Posts: 69
A new spin on message in a bottle.
While planning our 10th.
Caribbean
bareboat
charter
I was thinking about some fun activities for both the adults and
kids
.
I came up with a idea similar to the old message in a bottle, but wanted to use model sailboats, as they will travel further faster and be lots of fun as well.
I toyed around with building my own models from scratch, even made a plaster
mold
and cast some hulls from 2 part foam Urethane materials. I was not really pleased with their performance and decided to do some
research
.
I Sent an
email
to Wil at Modelsailboat.com and got a favorable response that he liked the idea and wanted to be part of it.
Wil was kind enough to offer blem (seconds) hulls to the program along with the rest of the components needed. I paid for
shipping
and also extra for Carbon Fiber masts, as the
boats
are bound to see some rough
weather
and squalls on their journeys.
When the package with eight T-15 kits arrived, I was pretty excited and also a little overwhelmed having to
varnish
and finish 8 models!! I installed a long
wood
screw in each
mast
hole so I could
varnish
each
boat
completely and avoid drips.
The hulls arrived beautifully sanded, did not need to touch them before varnishing.
8 cats of Minwax Helmsman urethane varnish were applied with foam
brushes
, very light
sanding
with 320 sandpaper between coats.
The
kids
all chose
boat names
and colors:
Nicole: Nicole’s Kitty, Bright lime green
Shayna: Eore’s Palyhouse, Bright pink
Haley: Gymnastics Girl, Bright Lime Green
Steffi: Kalypso II bright Pink
RexIII; The Black Pearl, Black
Zach: Pequeno, Black
Miciah: S/V Michah, natural with blue
lightning
bolt
Mark (Me) Zapper (commemorative
boat
on display at my home) natural with blue bolt.
The finishing process was a daily fun thing to do after
work
, this allowed each coat of varnish then
paint
to dry completely.
After painting, many thin clear coats of Minwax Helmsman spray urethane varnish were applied, the
boats
are now looking really sharp! The keels were masked in the area that mates with the
hull
, painted and then clear coated also.
Meet the fleet!
The masts and keels are simply installed and not epoxied in place yet for each of carry on air transport in a back pack.
Each boat also had an engraved plaque attached with double sided tape and 4 brass screws. The other models included
phone
numbers,
email
and mailing addresses.
Time to assemble the boats on site, Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands!!!
It was quite warm, notice the beers on our building table?? The temperature helped the West System
epoxy
Wil supplied set up in just a couple of hours. It was tough waiting for them to dry, we were ready to sail
Final assembly and decorating!!!
The final assembly of masts and
sails
was done aboard Jeannius, our chartered
privilege
435
catamaran
. The kids put final touches on with Permanent Sharpie markers!
Off to Snorkel Monkey Point, then sail the boats at Leverick Bay!
Video links:
We raced the boats all afternoon at the pool at Leverick Bay. I passed out all of the Modelsailboat.com business cards to people that just loved watching the boats sail!!!
Time to release the boats! The boats were released just off
Anegada
, an Island made of
coral
standing only 12 feet above sea level and 12 miles from the nearest island.
A video of the release:
The seas were a bit lumpy for not being underway, we were waiting for a another
catamaran
that followed us out to
Anegada
, they had never been before, so we stayed in
radio
contact after we blew them away with our big pretty
gennaker
. We guided them into the entrance and mooing field.
The kids had some separation anxiety, they loved their boats, but also a sense of adventure in releasing them and hopefully hearing from someone far away that found them!!!
It was all behind them after spending the next day at Loblolly Bay.
Then the next day at Cow Wreck Beach.
We celebrated my 49th. Birthday at Cow Wreck Beach, had to wear this silly badge all day!!!
After returning home, we received a call from the first sighting!
I answered the
phone
to lady with an
English
accent, it was Sir Richard Branson’s Assistant!
Seems Nicole’s Kitty sailed right into the bay at Necker Island, 12 miles from the release point.
Sir Richard’s assistant explained that he loved the boat and the idea, he actually played with it in the bay for some time before bringing it ashore.
I asked her to have him sign and date the boat with permanent marker and send it back out on the ocean side of the island.
The remainder of the boats must have cleared Necker island and Virgin Gorda and are off in the
Gulf Stream
by now!!!
Future sightings will be added to this report as they come in.
We have already booked a boat for June ’08 and may replay this adventure with just a few boats this time!
A link to all of the videos and photos from our 13
day sailing
vacation
:
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/saildoggie/BVI07/
Another useful link to information and a fun travel forum!
www.traveltalkonline.com
My
screen
name is Saildoggie over there!
Many thanks to Wil at
www.modelsailboat.com
for all the support and donating the boats!!
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https://bipto.smugmug.com/gallery/1643461/1/80286693
https://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/saildoggie/BVIXMAS06/
24-10-2008, 18:14
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Saildoggie
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: So CA. USA
Boat: OP's boats! Charter big cats and race big monos!
Posts: 69
Hey!!
Found the article the
BVI
Beacon did on the project!!
Right here:
The BVI Beacon
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24-10-2008, 20:50
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Paul Elliott
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I found a bottle under a pile of seaweed, on the beach near Point Reyes (north of San Francisco). It contained a message from a guy that had tossed it in near Fort Bragg, a distance of about 90 miles. I called the phone number in the message, but the guy seemed rather disappointed. Oh well.
I have made it a little tradition to launch a bottle with a nice message when we cross the halfway point between
San Francisco
to
Hawaii
. I usually include a picture of our boat, a hand-drawn chart showing our location in the Pacific, and personal messages from the crew. I include mailing and email addresses, my phone number, and a $5 bill. We use wine bottles and seal the cork with caulking. White wine is best, because the bottle is clear (or nearly so). Dark bottles just look like trash, because you can't see the message inside.
Six bottles so far, but no replies.
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www.sailvalis.com
26-10-2008, 08:28
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Therapy
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: W Florida
Boat: Still have the 33yo Jon boat. But now a CATAMARAN. Nice little 18' Bay Cat.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Saildoggie
A video of the release:
22-11-2008, 01:46
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Casco Bay
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 24
Images:
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I sent a few messages in bottles out while cruising south of
Florida
. Two months later my parents received a response from a
school
teacher in
Cuba
. He had found the bottle while walking the beach.
23-11-2008, 16:25
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23
knothead
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Tampa Bay
Boat: Nor Sea 27'
Posts: 205
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ess105
We dropped off a bottle half way between
Bermuda
and The
Azores
recently. My guess it is still swirling around the Atlantic at this point.
I did the same thing once. I was feeling particularly lonely and wrote a little love note to Mrs Knothead. I added a few dollar bills and tossed it
overboard
. It was found a few years later in the
Bahamas
and mailed to my wife.
The wonderful people who mailed it asked to know the "rest of the story" but before my, less that romantic better half, got around to writing them she had
lost
their address.
I still feel bad about that.
13-01-2009, 10:40
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Guzzi
Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: STL MO
Boat: we don't need no steenking boat-we walk on water...
Posts: 51
I found one, the note inside read, "Return to sender-address unknown".
My dad always said before he left this cold, cruel world, "Never trust anything that comes out of a bottle, whether it be booze or a blonde".
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13-01-2009, 18:16
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Hudson Force
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
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When anchored at Allens-Pensacola in the Abacos we found this marked piece of chart from St. Lucia in a barnacle encrusted bottle. Nothing written, but the lat & long:
'take care and joy, Aythya crew
14-01-2009, 03:18
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26
James S
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
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Saildoggie
That’s so cool...what a fun
project
.
I remember seeing a
movie
when I was a kid called "Paddle to the Sea"
The guy made a wooden canoe with a guy sitting in it...he put ballast in it so it always stayed up right.....
If I remember right he launched it in a stream in the spring and it made its way to the
great lakes
and beyond.
CaptForce
That chart is a good find...looks more like a treasure map....X marks the spot...cool find.
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S/V Arctic Lady
I love my boat, I can't afford not to!
15-01-2009, 14:50
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Hal
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 101
I launched one from a little town in South
Australia
once. Never did get an answer. Launched a baloon from Oklahoma City in a fierce storm and got a reply from Pittsburg about a week later. Amazing!
20-01-2009, 22:49
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28
Grasshopper
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Lynnwood Washington
Boat: 16' Catalina
Posts: 18
Quote:
Originally Posted by
BlueLagoon
Once a Petrone bottle washed up on Melbourne Beach in
Florida
. There was a note written on homemade paper with a sterling silver ring inside. The note said, "If anyone finds this ring, I hope it brings them more happiness than it has brought to me."
And who say's there's nothing to be found at the bottom of a bottle...
21-01-2009, 04:11
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bastonjock
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lincolnshire UK
Boat: Mac 26x
Posts: 169
i was working as a diver off of
Denmark
in the mid 80s i was doing a pipeline swim/inspection, i was pulling my self along when out of the blue(literally) i spotted a bottle of grolsh
beer
,it was like finding an oasis in the desert,there was a strict no booze
rule
on the ship,i put the bottle in my bag and after i finished the dive,i sat there looking at it with a thirst that was building,i openned it and i was a tad dissapointed but not surprised to find that it had been spoiled by sea
water
21-01-2009, 06:08
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Herbseesmoore
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Silver Creek, WA, US
Boat: searching
Posts: 215
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Found on Elliot Key
Back about 1990 we were beach combing on the ocean side of Elliot Key. We found plenty of neat stuff, there was enough
lumber
to build a house or at least a great shack, hats, frisbees, flip flops, and the message in a bottle. It gave lat and long which was about the middle of the Atlantic. He was a merchant
marine
. We wrote to the address in
England
and our letter came back, a little stamp with 4 catagories from the postal
service
. The catagory checked off was "Gone away". Made us smile.
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