She said the boat rolled completely at least once as the hurricane swept by and she was knocked unconscious. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. And one moment perhaps more than any other helps her through: ‘As dawn breaks and the rescue ship is steaming towards me, I know my incredible journey against all the odds had surely taught me one thing. 23-year-old Tami Oldham and her British fiancé, Richard Sharp (34), had been pleasure sailing his 36-foot sailboat, the Mayaluga, for the previous six months. 'Lifetime' Oath Keepers member first to plead guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Study shows double-masking -- medical mask under cloth -- cuts COVID-19 spread, Pfizer CEO says need for third dose of COVID-19 vaccine 'likely', Elon Musk's SpaceX wins $2.9B contract to build lunar lander. In October of 1983, a friend approached the couple and asked if they would deliver a 44-foot yacht, Hazana, from Tahiti to San Diego. When she awoke about three hours later she said she was feverish and had bruises and blood on her body. Tami Oldham Ashcraft speaks frequently about her experiences and continues to be an avid sailor. Tossed like a cork on the raging ocean, the yacht had flipped end over end. Sharp's safety line was still hooked to the boat but his harness had snapped, she said. Also, now electronics are so much better and waterproof.” But she did emphasize that her sextant was what saved her life. The cabin was half-filled with water, everything inside it smashed or scattered on the floor. Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) leave Tahiti. She is a 100-ton licensed captain who has logged more than 50,000 offshore miles, and lives with her husband and family in Friday Harbor, Washington. Adrift, a drama adventure movie about sailing the high seas. But that survival instinct [while at sea] just kicked in. Facebook gives people the power to share … They believe this will be a side trip on their cruise around the South Pacific and New Zealand.A British couple hired them in Papeete to deliver their 44-foot yacht, Hazana, to San Diego while the couple flies home on a family emergency. A jar of peanut butter. She also found some beer and – incongruously – Cuban cigars, which became her nightly treats. At just 45 square feet, it was small – but it was enough. A second important victory. Coming to theaters June 1, the movie Adrift is based on a terrifying real-life story of survival. The original was shredded and the mast broken, but there was a heavy-duty sail still rolled up in its cover. 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And the task seemed as simple as it was pleasurable: sail the Hazana to her winter berth in San Diego on behalf of the well-heeled owners. STX/Tami Oldham Ashcraft. Bird drops fish onto truck's windshield in North Carolina. Warning: The following post contains spoilers for the movie Adrift, and the real-life story on which it is based. The mast was broken, the sails in shreds and the boat itself flooded with water. 'I prayed to God a lot.'. Ms. Oldham said rigged up a makeshift sail, used a sextant to navigate by the stars and gauged the distance she traveled each day with a digital watch. Tami shouted his name over and over again, but found only empty ocean. Man in teddy bear costume walking from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It sticks to my tongue like a slug to concrete. April 15 (UPI) -- An Australian man said he used his winnings from a minor lottery prize to buy a scratch-off ticket -- but it was two weeks before he discovered he had won more than $200,000. It urged her to get up, to eat and to make a plan to get to land. And at times, it became overwhelming, particularly when the wind and rain returned to lash the boat on day 11. 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Then I see it, floating in front of me. But soon, the seemingly idyllic love story takes a grim turn. Ms. Oldham was rescued in seas just off the island of Hawaii Sunday. ‘No one ever suggested it [counselling],’ she said later, ‘but I wish I had because I definitely had some severe post-traumatic stress syndrome. FOR loved-up young adventurer Tami Oldham, sailing a yacht across the Pacific with her sexy fiance was meant to be 4,000 miles of sun-kissed bliss. April 16 (UPI) -- A British Columbia singer broke a Guinness World Record when she managed to sing a C1 note -- the lowest C note on a standard piano -- and captured the title of lowest vocal note by a female. At 34, Richard was more than a decade older than his young American lover, but with his his lapis lazuli eyes, golden hair and ‘exotic’ English accent, he meant everything to her. Few others would have survived the extraordinary voyage, it said. The boat was badly damaged and both masts were broken. Still, however, the forceful inner voice kept pulling her back to sanity. You can buy a copy here. At one point, she was so near Hawaii that she thought she might have overshot the islands, and was beginning to drift towards China – a terrifying possibility. British Columbia singer breaks record for lowest note by a female. The film is an adaptation of the 1998 book Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea written by Tami Oldham Ashcraft herself. ‘I had always wanted to write it. 'I thought I was going to die and a couple of times I thought I was going to kill myself, but I didn't know how to kill myself.'. April 16 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Texas rescued a kitten found with its head stuck through a lug hole in a discarded vehicle wheel. After sailing together for six months, the pair took a job delivering a 44-foot yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. $200,000 winning scratch-off lottery ticket went unscratched for two weeks. And so the days went by with the voice as her only companion on the lonely waters. Yet the reality for this gilded couple, Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her British fiance, Richard Sharp, could barely have proved more catastrophic – as the course they set put them directly into the path of Hurricane Raymond and one of the most destructive storms in recorded history. British garden stores facing gnome shortage. April 16 (UPI) -- Garden stores in Britain are facing a garden gnome shortage, and industry experts said the recent blockage of the Suez canal is partially to blame. 1983 wurde Oldham Ashcrafts damaligem Verlobten, dem britischen Segler Richard Sharp (34), angeboten, die 44-Fuß Yacht Hazana von Tahiti nach San Diego zu überführen. Yet even the big-screen treatment could hardly be more dramatic than the true 1,500-mile solo epic that Tami describes in Red Sky In Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss And Survival At Sea, which will be re-published next month as Adrift. In 1983, Ashcraft's then-fiancé, 34-year-old British sailor Richard Sharp, was hired to ferry the 13-metre yacht Hazaña from Tahiti to San Diego.The then 23-year-old Ashcraft accompanied him on the crossing.
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