Miles Out: How a Hairline Crack Turned Into Twelve Days Lost at Sea
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Miles Out: How a Hairline Crack Turned Into Twelve Days Lost at Sea
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She was 106 miles from land at 2:00 a.m. when a hairline crack nobody could see let a 38-foot mast fall in under four seconds - leaving one sailor adrift with no radio and a six-inch hull breach. How did a single invisible failure and a routine habit about a notebook set twelve days of searches, missed signals, and cascading breakdowns into motion?
In this episode, we tell the chronological account of what happened on Patricia Barnes’s voyage from Kemah toward Key West, the immediate mechanical failures she faced, and the communication plan that went silent - what went wrong, and why the question of where she was remained unanswered.
Person: Patricia Barnes
Vessel: 1987 cutter-rigged fiberglass sloop, 38 feet on deck
Date: December 30, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.
Location: approximately 106 miles from land, south of Galveston / 62 nautical miles SSW of Galveston (last known transmission)
Event: mast fell after upper swage crack; satellite communicator lost overboard
- Patricia spent four years refitting the boat and paid $60,000 for it at a marina in Kemah, Texas.
- She was 54 years old and kept a weekly routine of writing for forty minutes at Bev’s Table diner and leaving a $6 tip.
- On December 29 she texted her position as 62 nautical miles south-southwest of Galveston; that was her final transmission.
- The mast fell to port in less than four seconds after the upper swage on the forestay cracked through.
- After forty-five minutes cutting rigging free, she found the propeller shaft fouled and the engine turned over but would not drive the boat.
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