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Three weeks after being plucked from the middle of the ocean by a navy vessel, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava say they wish they could just go back to sea. Their sailboat, Sea Nymph, is now floating abandoned somewhere off the coast of Asia.
Their story has received so much attention that some of Appel’s family members in Texas don’t want her back home. “It surprised me that the bad press started immediately,” Appel told the Guardian in a recent phone interview. “Because this is actually a feelgood story.”
The wayward sailors and their two dogs have now washed up in New York, after being flown there for an appearance on the Today show. But they say they are short on money and anxious to find their vessel or get another one. Fuiava, who met Appel last December, just a few months before the trip, said that rather than regretting the trip, she longed to get back to the sea. “It is beautiful out there,” she said. “You don’t smell the city life. The sky doesn’t get blocked out by the lights.” “It was simpler on the ocean,” Appel said. “There you survive and everything is OK. Here, we’ve re-entered the Matrix – and we left the Matrix for a reason.”
Appel said she was still hoping to find her boat, which was her only home. In the meantime, her dogs must get two vaccines 30 days apart before they can be let back into Hawaii. She said she left her wallet on Sea Nymph and was running out of money. Her family doesn’t want to talk to her. On top of that, a tabloid published nude pictures of her taken when she dabbled in dominatrix work a decade ago. And, she said, a tinge of exasperation in her otherwise enthusiastic voice, she has no hope of recovering insurance money from her lost boat “because it was outside of the 400-mile radius [from shore]”. She was also irritated at the bad press. “People think I’m making a movie or a book. I haven’t signed anything yet.”
Appel and Fuiava said they were currently staying with friends in Long Island. Since they can’t return to Hawaii with the dogs until some time in December, they are planning to do a cross-country road trip.
“Eventually, we’re either going to find out my boat has been found or we’re going to start working on a new boat,” Appel said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/18/jennifer-appel-tasha-fuiava-sea-rescue-hawaii
Their story has received so much attention that some of Appel’s family members in Texas don’t want her back home. “It surprised me that the bad press started immediately,” Appel told the Guardian in a recent phone interview. “Because this is actually a feelgood story.”
The wayward sailors and their two dogs have now washed up in New York, after being flown there for an appearance on the Today show. But they say they are short on money and anxious to find their vessel or get another one. Fuiava, who met Appel last December, just a few months before the trip, said that rather than regretting the trip, she longed to get back to the sea. “It is beautiful out there,” she said. “You don’t smell the city life. The sky doesn’t get blocked out by the lights.” “It was simpler on the ocean,” Appel said. “There you survive and everything is OK. Here, we’ve re-entered the Matrix – and we left the Matrix for a reason.”
Appel said she was still hoping to find her boat, which was her only home. In the meantime, her dogs must get two vaccines 30 days apart before they can be let back into Hawaii. She said she left her wallet on Sea Nymph and was running out of money. Her family doesn’t want to talk to her. On top of that, a tabloid published nude pictures of her taken when she dabbled in dominatrix work a decade ago. And, she said, a tinge of exasperation in her otherwise enthusiastic voice, she has no hope of recovering insurance money from her lost boat “because it was outside of the 400-mile radius [from shore]”. She was also irritated at the bad press. “People think I’m making a movie or a book. I haven’t signed anything yet.”
Appel and Fuiava said they were currently staying with friends in Long Island. Since they can’t return to Hawaii with the dogs until some time in December, they are planning to do a cross-country road trip.
“Eventually, we’re either going to find out my boat has been found or we’re going to start working on a new boat,” Appel said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/18/jennifer-appel-tasha-fuiava-sea-rescue-hawaii
