Two American women rescued after five months at sea

Thanks for sharing the uplifting news SFC William Farrell which reminded me of the plot of Gilligan's Island :-)

I am glad that "Jennifer Appel, 48, and her friend Tasha Fuiaba were found by the fishing vessel around 900 miles southeast of Japan, and a U.S. Navy ship based out of Sasebo, Japan, rescued them on Wednesday morning, the Navy said and Appel’s mother said.
"One prays every day, and your friends pray with you, and you hope that everything goes well," Appel’s mother, Marie, said in a phone interview with NBC News on Thursday
"I thank God that she has made it there safely," Marie Appel said.
The sailboat the pair was on lost its engine during a storm on May 30, and they believed they could make it to land by sail, according to the Navy. But by two months after leaving Hawaii, they began making distress calls every day, but were out of range for any stations or ships, the Navy said.
Marie Appel said she was told that after her daughter, a landscape architect who has been sailing for about a year and a half, and her friend Fuiaba set sail from Oahu, a series of things went wrong.
Two hours in the trip her phone was washed overboard, Jennifer Appel contacted the Coast Guard to let them know and the Coast Guard estimated the pair should arrive in Tahiti by around June 5.
Then there were problems with the antenna, the motor starter failed, and new rigging on the mast broke, Marie Appel said.
The Navy said the engine became disabled during bad weather on May 30, but they continued on by sail. When they were found they were far off course, closer to Japan while Tahiti is south of Hawaii, around 2,600 miles away. They sailboat was found more than 5,000 miles away from Tahiti."

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Numbers in the story don't make sense. Read other articles on this rescue. Sailed from Hawaii on May 03. Encountered a storm on May 30. Lost engine. Continued sailing, but they were not going straight or there were light winds, because they should have covered much more distance than they did. I suspect poor reporting of the facts and a need to make recue more dramatic than it was.

SFC William Farrell Screw That! I Get Pissy after 2 Week without a Vertrep (Helicopter Food Delivery)