I did not see this 2011 article on the e34 on this site so posting.
http://sailingmagazine.net/article-1050-ericson-34.html
http://sailingmagazine.net/article-1050-ericson-34.html
Did Webb Chiles ever say what sank his boat off the coast of Florida?
What! Why? Maybe he is crazier than I assumed... I read his account of the incident and the resulting three day swim but he never said what the original problem was. I assumed when he talked about the bow dipping under the wave that something had gone wrong, not that he was watching the boat sink lower with a smug grin on his face listening to Led Zeppelin and waiting for some kind of slow motion suicide. I imagined a hull breach or a careless mistake.
He has a true talent for writing though, I enjoyed reading several of his stories.
I'm not sure which book or story that he wrote of that final cruise on Resurgam. Maybe I'll find it and re-read it. But a few years ago I did ask him in an e-mail why he did it. I think I asked something like - was there a woman involved? He didn't cop to that in his reply. So, I don't know why he did it.
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