Ryk wrote:

On 7 Nov 2005 08:43:42 -0800, wrote:


Don White wrote:

Still affected my aftermath of Hurricane Juan.
http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-larind...al2005117.html

I guess the captain went down with the ship- just not on the same day.
A tragedy.


I can't speculate on how much the loss of Larinda was a factor in his
suicide, but Larry did go on to other things after the sinking. He
purchased the former "Hawaian Chieftain" and renamed her "Spirit of
Larinda". My son sailed with him from San Diego, through the Panama,
and on to Jamaica last winter/spring.

Ryk

I saw the boat in Lunenburg, NS this summer about a week after his
passing. She was still in pretty rough shape. I'm (almost) positive it
is a ferrocement boat, there was some raw concrete work on one side.
There was a large frog or something on the bow and some other figurines
around the outside. I could not get inside but a local warf rat told me
that there was a lot of hand carving, etc. on the inside as well.

At the time there was quite a lot of "stuff" in nets and what-not on the
deck. She did not look cared for.

Coincidentally, I was another hard luck ferro cement boat at the Norther
Yacht Club in Sydney. It was a very pretty factory built ferro cement
boat sailed up from South Africa. The story round the club is the
skipper left her with a local fellow who cobbled together a cradel, but
it popped apart and she fell, fracturing her hull. When I was there she
was getting stripped to be broken up, but a last minute deal was being
discussed and may have saved her.

And a final coincidence. The very next post talks about a 33' steel
boat from Liverpool that had the skipper taken off during Wilma and then
washed back up near Yarmouth. I just bought my boat (33' steel) in
Shelbourn - between Yarmouth and Liverpool this summer. I passed
through Liverpool, Lunenburg, Halifax, Sheet Harbour, St. Petes,
Baddeck, and finally arrived at Syndey. Looks like steel boats are
pretty tough old dogs.