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CREW RESCUED AFTER 34-DAYS OF MISERY AT SEA

Exhausted crew of three rescued off the coast of Portugal after 34-days of misery at sea. What started as a hopeful plan to sail the 61-foot ketch Rosa Del Mar from Cape Canaveral to Spain by way of Bermuda and the Azores ended up as a 34-day life-threatening nightmare. Our leaky boat suffered catastrophic equipment failures from the first day to the last. Beginning the trip by almost crashing into the fuel pumps at Cape Marina when the transmission wouldn’t go into reverse to slow us down. By day two our mainsail couldn’t be hoisted more than halfway up the mast and wouldn’t come down at all. We soon discovered we had no radar, no maps beyond Bermuda, and an AIS system that could receive but not transmit, rendering us invisible to other ships. On this ill-fated journey we had to cut our dinghy loose to save the ship, our transmission was never fixed, causing close calls with other ships and another fuel dock. The mainsail was useless, our navigation lights went dark, our batteries died, and the bilge alarms screamed incessantly that we were taking on water that our bilge pumps refused to clear. Finally, 200 miles from the coast of Portugal, watery fuel silenced both the engine and the generator for good. Soaked, injured, and sick, we reached our breaking point. Our inexperienced captain, arms raised in defeat, declared, “I give up,” and called for help. The next day, the Portuguese Maritime Authority rescued us, twenty miles off the coast of Portugal. Thank you so much for watching! If you're enjoying our videos, please like and subscribe to our channel at this link:    / @yard2yacht