Ep. 69: Escape? (Finding Jacie Sails, Pt. 2)
Jun 12, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Show Notes at HowNotToSail.com/69
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Bradford RogersHostBillGuest
Kim CalypsoGuest
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Jun 12, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Show Notes at HowNotToSail.com/69
Bradford RogersHostBillGuestKim CalypsoGuestNo entities detected.
So in case you missed the last four episodes, I had to abandon ship and hop on a Coast Guard vessel 35 miles north of Key West on the afternoon before Hurricane Milton.
The vessel was found recently, and we'd like to get back into contact with you.
And after a Navy helo spotted her over a month later, I had her towed to Stock Island, just next to Key West.
There are two boat yards in Stock Island and they have similar sounding names.
My friend Jim had been to one of the two recently and was pretty happy with them.
The one my boat was headed to seemed like they were quoting a little higher price for the haul out than what Jim mentioned.
But I was busy getting my happy ass down there from Atlanta and didn't feel like quibbling.
I'm struggling to think of a single boat yard out of six so far that I've been what I might call happy with.
But when Towboat US towed my vessel into the haul-out basin and they got her up on the hard the next day, I was what, for me, passes as ecstatic.
My main reason for bringing the boat to a yard and hauling her out of the water was to see what kind of injuries she might have sustained during her month-long walkabout.
the main and stazel were torn the forward port lifeline had snapped the batteries showed no charge and of course the cabin was a disaster but the hull seemed intact and frankly the keel didn't look much worse than the last time i'd seen it underwater i was lucky she'd gone aground in soft mud apparently The manager of the boatyard seemed friendly and confident enough, so since you're supposed to get the bottom repainted every couple of years, and since I've you pulling my nine-ton boat out of the water with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for discovering an unexplained skin condition...
I figured I'd take this opportunity to let the yard sand and paint the bottom while I attempted to take care of everything else and finalize plans for our friend Bill to fly down to help me take my boat back north to St. Pete.
So in case you missed the last four episodes, I had to abandon ship and hop on a Coast Guard vessel 35 miles north of Key West on the afternoon before Hurricane Milton.
The vessel was found recently, and we'd like to get back into contact with you.
And after a Navy helo spotted her over a month later, I had her towed to Stock Island, just next to Key West.
There are two boat yards in Stock Island and they have similar sounding names.
My friend Jim had been to one of the two recently and was pretty happy with them.
The one my boat was headed to seemed like they were quoting a little higher price for the haul out than what Jim mentioned.
But I was busy getting my happy ass down there from Atlanta and didn't feel like quibbling.
I'm struggling to think of a single boat yard out of six so far that I've been what I might call happy with.
But when Towboat US towed my vessel into the haul-out basin and they got her up on the hard the next day, I was what, for me, passes as ecstatic.
My main reason for bringing the boat to a yard and hauling her out of the water was to see what kind of injuries she might have sustained during her month-long walkabout.
the main and stazel were torn the forward port lifeline had snapped the batteries showed no charge and of course the cabin was a disaster but the hull seemed intact and frankly the keel didn't look much worse than the last time i'd seen it underwater i was lucky she'd gone aground in soft mud apparently The manager of the boatyard seemed friendly and confident enough, so since you're supposed to get the bottom repainted every couple of years, and since I've you pulling my nine-ton boat out of the water with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for discovering an unexplained skin condition...
I figured I'd take this opportunity to let the yard sand and paint the bottom while I attempted to take care of everything else and finalize plans for our friend Bill to fly down to help me take my boat back north to St. Pete.
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