Current Events > Couple sells everything to sail around the world, boat sinks on second day

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A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.

Within two days, their dream became a nautical nightmare.

On their way to Key West, Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh's voyage abruptly ended in Johns Pass off Madeira Beach, Fla., when their 28-foot sailboat struck something underwater Wednesday night.

"We hit something in about 8 or 9 feet of water and it stopped the boat completely," Broadwell told TV station WFTS.

Water flooded into the cabin, starting to sink their fantasy life. The couple grabbed social security cards, cash, IDs and their pug Remy as they called for rescue.

A ship arrived about an hour later, the Tampa Bay Times reported, but the water was too shallow for it to approach.

So the couple and Remy jumped in, leaving their dream vessel behind to capsize.

"Everything I've worked for, everything I've owned since I was a child, I brought with me. It's just floating away and there's nothing I can do," Walsh told WFTS.

Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000. It took a year and another $5,000 to get the boat ready to sail, Tampa Bay Times reported.

Now, it could cost thousands to remove Lagniappe from the channel.

Even with no savings and no place to live, the couple said they're not giving up on sailing again one day.

"The boat sank," Walsh told WFTS, "but our dreams didn't sink with the boat."

I know I should feel bad but I just kind of..don't.
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it's like raaain on your wedding day
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I admit it...I laughed.

Also, a lifetime of savings and belongings only got them $10,000?
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lol
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This is why you don't buy a boat.
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Damn son
Lol
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Bust
Out
Another
Thousand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LM0CZZ9Uw8
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Damn that sucks. I definitely don't agree with selling everything you own to get a boat, but if it was there dream, who am I to knock them for doing everything in their power to accomplish it?
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DeanAuryn posted...

Also, a lifetime of savings and belongings only got them $10,000?

This. WTF? They must not have had a lot of stuff or money to begin with.
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If you sold all your belongings and gathered all your savings and only got $10,000, you have more than one sinking ship.
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Master_Bass posted...

DeanAuryn posted...

Also, a lifetime of savings and belongings only got them $10,000?

This. WTF? They must not have had a lot of stuff or money to begin with.

gmanthebest posted...

If you sold all your belongings and gathered all your savings and only got $10,000, you have more than one sinking ship.

they probably had more than 10k. that's just what it cost to get the boat ready to sail; they would need money for food and etc
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Damn that's heartbreaking.

But at least they have their lives. Hopefully they still set aside money.
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They now realize it's not a big blue watery road.

I could never do that but I get it.
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These two idiots are lucky to be alive. They clearly were broke and knew nothing about sailing and they wanted to head to the "open seas?" This fuck up cost them some money, a fuck up at the "high seas" would have rendered them dead and missing. Blessing in disguise.
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thronedfire2 posted...

Broadwell and Walsh left Colorado last year after selling off all their belongings, including a car, to buy Lagniappe for $5,000.

Wow did they live in a free-standing closet or something?
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