A man from the US has been rescued after attempting to sail 300 miles from the south of England to Ireland in a child’s inflatable dinghy with a sail made out of tarpaulin. Worst. MacGyver. Ever.
The 40-year-old was found drifting a few miles from the Dorset coast in a vessel with a makeshift mast and sail.
Discovered by a passing dive boat, his rescuers said he had no water and had given up on reaching Ireland – but that he did not seem worried.
“My first thoughts were: very bizarre,” said Nigel Holder, skipper of the boat X-Dream.
“If you can imagine a small child’s dinghy … and a grown man sitting in it with oars – and he had a mast made up of paddles and a triangular sail made from a tarpaulin.”
The freak initially insisted he did not need help but later agreed to get on board and was taken ashore, where he received treatment for severe sunburn. It’s unknown if he had a huge bushy beard and was yelling “Wilson” at the time.
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