wfgodot
Former Member
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2009
- Messages
- 30,166
- Reaction score
- 726
Why DID Mary sail to disaster? She insisted on sailing solo round Land's End on the yacht
she'd just been given by her new husband. Now she's vanished - leaving a tantalising mystery... (Daily Mail)
she'd just been given by her new husband. Now she's vanished - leaving a tantalising mystery... (Daily Mail)
much more at the link aboveThe day before Mary Unwin embarked on her doomed voyage around Lands End last weekend, she took her new £32,000 boat out for a trial sail. Sailing conditions were perfect in the sheltered waters around Falmouth as the boat, Seagair, coursed through gentle waves.
---
As we now know, Mary set sail on Seagair the following morning with apparently tragic consequences. In the week since she was last seen alive, flotsam washed up on several Cornish beaches has included jagged fragments of a wood-panelled sailing boat, distinctive seat cushions, and a plate bearing Seagairs registration number.
But as hopes of finding Mary alive have faded, the mystery surrounding her disappearance has deepened.
---
No one saw Mary leave Falmouth marina on Saturday morning, but she was seen in the harbour entrance at Mousehole about 40 miles further along the coast at around 3pm by fisherman Finbar Jones. I could see she couldnt really handle the boat, says 28-year-old Mr Jones. She hit my boat twice while she was trying to manoeuvre in.
---
I asked her where she was going and she said round the corner, which I knew meant round Lands End. I thought she was joking, but she was deadly serious. I told her it was way too dangerous, but she seemed absolutely determined. I have beaten myself up about what happened since then, but I couldnt stop her.
---
She wouldnt take advice from anybody. If she was going to go, she was going to go. Shes one of lifes eccentrics, as mad as a box of frogs but absolutely wonderful said Marys friend Sarah-Louise Sim.
---