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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. Yeah, I love to sail," she said. She heard her fiancé yell, and she was thrown against the cabin wall and instantly knocked out. I just really had a hard time,’ she recalled. Taking a 44ft luxury yacht from Tahiti to California, a voyage of some 4,000 miles across the glistening waters of the Pacific, was the chance of a lifetime for two avid young sailors. Back to 1983 (five months before the catastrophic hurricane), Tami Oldham arrives in Tahiti on board the schooner Sofia and meets Richard Sharp, a British sailor. r iani Hernindez y Adelina Carba- NU de luventud.d asnp bnt : egnts oven, entre ls qua tanlasa im- Desde las nueve de Ia noche ret- nido. "Trying to get the boat moving, and I had a sextant, all my electronics were fried so I had to rely on the sun and stars to find out where I was," she said, in a new interview to promote "Adrift.". Marathoner, Singer, sunset lover. ‘I’ve always wanted to write my story, but it took me years to move on from being totally consumed by it,’ she explained. Febrero, 2017, Ciudad… 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. ‘There were times I didn’t even want to live any more because I didn’t know how I was going to go on. I need food, I must get my brain and body functioning.’. Then I see it, floating in front of me. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2021 Gray Television, Inc. 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Hurricane Laura: 14 dead, thousands without power in Louisiana, Texas She was then thrown against the side, knocking her unconscious.When she came to 27 hours later Richard was gone and she was all alone on the ocean, up to her waist in water on the wrecked yacht.It had lost its masts, engine, radio equipment and its electronic navigation system, and Tami had lost the … Ashcraft said it took years to emotionally heal from her ordeal at sea. It's based on the real-life story of a woman who navigated a hurricane-wrecked sailboat across the Pacific to the Big Island. Three weeks into their journey, the couple realized they were sailing headlong into Hurricane Raymond. "Yeah! 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In 1983, Ashcraft arrived in Hilo after 41 days spent all alone out on the Pacific aboard the heavily-damaged yacht, "Hazana." It wasn’t as intense as when I got to shore and the survival was over, and I could see people together and everything kept reminding me of him. Business owners issue desperate appeal for aid after pandemic and anti-Asian racism has decimated Chinatown in New York, San Francisco and Seattle, Shocking moment cop car runs over man and miraculously leaves him with just minor injuries after angry crowd surrounded the vehicle as police tried to stop a Fast and Furious style burnout, How letters nearly put paid to David Lean's version of A Passage To India amid concerns from the executors of E.M. Forster's literary estate that he was trying to simplify a complex tale. Briefly, she contemplated joining her fiancé in the depths of the now calm water. The 1983 Pacific hurricane season was the longest season ever recorded at that time, which was later surpassed by the 2015 and 2016 seasons. It was nightfall and a perilous coral reef stood between her safety so, unable to risk going in until daylight, she endured one more agonising night before dawn broke and a rescue vessel sailed out from port to guide her home. She should feel joy and pride before finally concluding: ‘I will always be with you’. El chef Alejandro Fuentes, un mexicano muy francés, es el alquimista que reinterpreta la cocina francesa y la ensambla con los puertos del mundo. The two had years of sailing experience and spent much of their time cruising around the South Pacific Islands on Sharp’s 36-foot sailboat. Richard then invites Tami for dinner on-board his boat, named Mayaluga. But nearly three weeks into the journey, disaster struck. The original was shredded and the mast broken, but there was a heavy-duty sail still rolled up in its cover. Wow, 100k for a 30 footer unsinkable, is unreal in modern day evolution, my opinion. And she was 1,500 miles from land. Während Sharp über Bord ging, überlebte Ashcraft den Sturm schwer verletzt und war fortan auf der stark beschädigten Yacht auf sich gestellt. Hawaii News Now anchor. It sticks to my tongue like a slug to concrete. A serious head injury and blood loss meant that she drifted in and out of consciousness. A jar of peanut butter. They tried to avoid the storm, but were quickly besieged by 40-foot waves and winds up to 140 knots. Tami shouted his name over and over again, but found only empty ocean. Bottom: Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin on the movie's version of the yacht. Ashcraft never saw the man she loved again. It was a very active Pacific hurricane season.The season started on May 15, 1983 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1983 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1983. It took three hairdressers two days to untangle her matted long blonde hair – which she was determined to keep long. But that survival instinct [while at sea] just kicked in. New study by Boston researchers says you can blame it on your ethnicity. However, 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. With winds of 140-knots and towering 40ft waves, Raymond struck them with the force of a wrecking ball, flipping the vessel over, forcing Richard overboard and leaving Tami alone aboard the devastated craft. Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) leave Tahiti. 41 Tage lang kämpfte sie sich zurück ins Leben und an Land. I grieved for so long, and I just wanted to erase it from my mind and move on. In 1983, Ashcraft arrived in Hilo after 41 days spent all alone out on the Pacific aboard the heavily-damaged yacht, "Hazana.". According to The Chicago Tribune, Oldham-Ashcraft and Sharp took a break from sailing Sharp’s boat, Mayaluga, to deliver the yacht, Hazana, from Tahiti to San Diego. 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 … ba Yacht Club, per& una fiet nguonmrs o ugr d eat Vatlhonral, Margarita day. Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft (née Oldham) is an American sailor and author who, in 1983, survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. At just 45 square feet, it was small – but it was enough. When I realised he wasn’t there, I wanted to die. Sometimes, the voice yelled at her so loudly she jumped. Die beiden gerieten 1983 auf dem Pazifik in einen der bis dato in diesem Seegebiet schwersten Wirbelstürme. Still, however, the forceful inner voice kept pulling her back to sanity. She also found some beer and – incongruously – Cuban cigars, which became her nightly treats. It helped me to focus, to keep myself on track.’. Tami Oldham und ihr Verlobter Richard Sharp wollten die Yacht „Hazana“ von Tahiti nach Kalifornien überführen. The depression moved over Template:Convert/F waters, intensifying into Tropical Storm Raymond on October 9. ‘From the depths of my soul, I feel an animal roar inside me. When she came to, she "dashed on top and he wasn't there. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Her story inspired the 2018 film Adrift.. 1983 shipwreck. The comments below have not been moderated. PETER WALKER: Are slim people ALWAYS fitter than fatties? Snatched by the boiling cauldron of the ocean, whipped to a frenzy by the hurricane. Doch dort kamen sie nie an. ‘Fight for your life.’. That voice, she says, brought her back from the brink, helping her navigate with just a sextant and the stars above her head. Scrambling out onto the deck she looked desperately for Richard but found only wreckage. Intensifying quickly, Raymond attained hurricane status on October 10, and subsequently a smal… Tami returned to the US and was reunited with her family, finding herself among other people once again reignited the grief she had buried in order to survive. Tossed like a cork on the raging ocean, the yacht had flipped end over end. Twice – on day 16 and then day 34 – she came within moments of rescue when a ship appeared on the horizon, but they failed to see her distress flares or the red T-shirt that she waved desperately at the end of an oar. In her absolute solitude Tami pondered whether she was already dead; that she had become impossible to see, and the thought drove her close to ending her life. "I've actually, I've had a little sailboat but I've gone to power boating now because it's not everybody's passion in my family.". In 1983, the couple agreed to take a job sailing the Hazana, a 44-foot yacht, 4,000 miles from Tahiti to San Diego. I couldn’t believe how much I was still holding around in my head, and just purging it like that really helped me to get past it all. ‘While I was in the survival mode, the grief was fairly low. Tami found the boat’s tinned rations among the wreckage and calculated that she could make them last up 40 days before starvation would set in. It was September 1983 when the two young sailors embarked on what they imagined to be a routine delivery for the Hazana’s British owners, Peter and Christine Compton. Play it now. In September 1983, 23-year-old Tami Oldham Ashcraft's future seemed as idyllic as the South Pacific islands she and her fiance, Richard Sharp, had been cruising for the past six months. Copyright 2018 Hawaii News Now. Overwhelmed with grief and shock, Tami was initially paralysed, unable to comprehend the truth. ‘I’m fairly headstrong, and thought “Oh, I can get through this on my own.” Now looking back, at times I really needed some professional help.’ Writing Red Sky In Mourning, the memoir which formed the basis for the film, was a part of her recovery.