Lost navigational power? Does that mean the rudder fell off? That's about the only thing I could think of. As calm as it is a floorboard or something would work if you didn't have an emergency rudder.Maybe they were out of water and food , that's about all that would get me to abandon that boat.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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