Why skeptics think a South Carolina sailor lied about being lost at sea for 66 days

[lumberjack_jeff]

76. a) you don't get a sunburn while secured in the cabin of a sailboat in survival conditions

b) The temperature of the water is immaterial in the cabin, and I'm used to north pacific water. 60°+ is pretty warm.
c) "you" don't right a 36' boat. It rights itself as it is designed to do. You're along for the ride.
d) as I understand it, this was his liveaboard. I would expect that there'd be 50+ days of food, water and cooking fuel aboard.

That said...
200 miles off the north carolina coast is the gulf stream, which flows about 2mph. By my math, they should have found him up near the grand banks.

It is perfectly possible to survive knockdowns and rollovers for 66 days. But if you do it in the north Atlantic, I find it surprising that he'd be rescued 500 miles from home. More likely 3200.

And the story about finding him clinging to an overturned hull is bullshit. A pearson 35 isn't going to stay inverted for more than a few minutes in calm water. I suspect that it was a misreporting.

I'm not ready to call shenanigans on the story.

He was found 56 days after he was declared lost...
By a german freighter who took him off his disabled vessel...
66 days after he was last seen...
Pretty elaborate deception, if you ask me.

Is his story subject to embellishment? That would not surprise me.