Next time you wanna try this again, among a 100 other things, don’t navigate via your non-waterproof phone fer christ sake!
A California man was stranded on his sailboat for over a month while en route to Hawaii. Kai Sato, 39, sailed off from the Catalina Islands on June 7, in an attempt to complete his first solo sail across the Pacific.
His plans took a turn for the worse when his mast snapped only two weeks into his journey. Kai Sato was attempting to complete his first solo sail across the Pacific when his mast mast snapped only two weeks into his journey.(Hawaii News Now)
“I cried for a whole week, just drifting south, like miserable,” said Sato. “I felt like I was going to just try to turn my motor on and just suffocate, to kill myself.” When Sato tried to motor back to shore, he ran out of gas, leaving him stranded.
“I was literally like a sitting duck, just getting taken south by the current going way off course,” said Sato. After five days of contemplation, he sprang into action. He began by jerry-rigging the sails, using PVC pipes and kayak paddles to repair his boat. Read on.
