Adrift at Sea was in fact one of the ten blogs in my Boating Blog Roundup which I posted at the end of March 2006. I wrote about Dan's accounts of how he was fitting out Pretty Gee and all the voyages he was planning -- all over New England, to the Chesapeake, and to Key West.
That same month March 2006 Dan posted a picture of his trimaran on a day when he went to visit her while she was still being built.
I followed Dan's blog for several years but then the emphasis of the blog changed away from sailing and more to his personal life and feelings, so I haven't been following it lately.
Imagine my shock when I heard a couple of days ago that Pretty Gee was destroyed by fire at the Moby Dick Marina in Fairhaven, MA on March 13 this year. Apparently Dan had been working on the boat and had been using a propane heater while doing so. He left the boat to go to lunch and, while at lunch, he received a call from the Fairhaven Fire Department to say that his boat had burned.
There are accounts of the fire on this forum, and (with some inaccuracies) on South Coast Today here and here.
Such a sad loss. It was obvious from Dan's blog that he poured so much love and care and effort into his boat, and that he enjoyed so much sharing his sailing experiences with his friends. I hope he finds some way to replace her and is able to get back on the water again soon.
Here is a video from happier days of Dan and some of his friends sailing on Pretty Gee.
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Can't help but think of another ill-fated sailing trimaran... the 2006 movie "Deep-Water"
The Deep Water movie was about Donald Crowhurst wasn't it? The difference being that Crowhurst died (presumably by suicide) and his boat survived. See High and Dry.
Poor Dan, that's terrible. Hopefully insurance will take care of it.........
I hope so Baydog. By the way, did you see that Dan's moniker in that forum I linked to is Sailingdog? You have competition!
Hmmm. August 18, 2007 its says on that video - the day that Dan and his friends were enjoying that downwind sail on his trimaran. Was I out sailing in those amazing winds on that day?
Turns out I was. A day I still remember. I wrote about it at Small Craft Advisory.
It's a sad day when one loses out to misfortune. Hopefully, Dan will come out of this with a nice check to outfit the Pretty Gee II from his insurance company.
BTW, I recently changed my boat insurance to Geico, and saved way more than 15%.
You gotta believe in the gecko.
If only we could buy insurance for all of our losses.
But it's more than a boat that's been lost when you've spent time aboard with someone who was close to you.
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