We arrived back home on Thursday 2nd July on the French Navy Patrol Warship La Glorieuse, adding an unexpected but exciting end to our adventure from the children’s perspective. We’re sorry to have lost our beloved Carenza to the bottom of the sea, but grateful to have all our family safe and well.
Charles will post his report as to what happened and the damage caused to the bulkhead and keel, which resulted in him requesting for us to be taken off the vessel, once the insurance have finished with their assessment. In the meantime, check the media coverage via the internet links listed below.
We have to say that we never felt ‘terrified’, there were some scary moments, but we prayed together as a family and felt calm and protected at all times, and we could feel the prayers of others on our behalf.
Are we put off sailing? Absolutely not, we were managing fine in the storm, it was horrible weather, big seas, crashing waves and wet, but that’s all part of sailing; and we’ve had the most fantastic holiday and the adventure of a lifetime.
Hopefully we’ll soon be able to post some photos on the blog for you to see, now we’re back in the land of fast and working internet access!
A big thank you to all our family and friends for your support before our trip, during our time away (in the form of heartfelt prayers) and especially after it all went down. We are gradually picking up the pieces and returning to life as normal.
Joy
Here’s the hyperlinks, hope they still work, this is rapidly becoming old news (thank goodness!):
Josh & Tom’s interview:
http://www.3news.co.nz/TVShows/CampbellLive/Terrifying-three-days-on-the-high-seas/tabid/367/articleID/111045/cat/84/Default.aspx#video
Scoophttp://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0907/S00015.htm
TelevisionTV1http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvnz_smartphone_story_skin/2823543http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_video/windows/one_news/6pm_rescue_020709_128k.asxTV3articlehttp://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/NZ-family-rescued-by-French-warship-arrive-back-home/tabid/423/articleID/110945/cat/64/Default.aspxvideohttp://www.3news.co.nz/Video/National/tabid/309/articleID/110945/cat/64/Default.aspx#videoNZ Herald Tribune article http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10582223video http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_objectid=10582223&gallery_id=106262Nelson Mailhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/national-news/2560876/Homework-goes-to-bottom-of-the-sea-with-family-yachtyahoohttp://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5694676/family-with-six-children-rescued-from-yacht/
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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