Well, really, I’d probably want to take my chances on a damaged sailboat than stay on a Taiwanese fishing boat, too. 
Hot, steamy, salty girl-on-girl (with maybe a dog now and then) action! 
Hey, International Waters. Anything goes…
Only they weren’t salty. Whatever the exact opposite of salty be, they were beyond it. Lubberly does not begin to cover it.
The (hypothetically) shanghaied woman no longer has any reason to keep quiet and play along, so I would hope any such misconduct would promptly come to light. In fact, landlubber that she is, she is still in an excellent position to reveal major facts like whether or not they encountered a huge storm or two, and she may have glanced at the GPS and charts and have some idea of the true course taken.
Many people have thought to wonder how many dogs there were when they started out, but someone should probably verify how many women there were too.
I’ll be very interested in hearing what Fuiava has to say once she’s able to speak on her own. But there certainly doesn’t seem to be any alienation between them in the interviews since their rescue. They mention some friction on the trip, which the presence of the dogs helped to moderate.
As mentioned up thread, they apparently only knew each other for a week before leaving on the voyage. Fuiava was a security guard at the boatyard where Appel was working on the boat.
haha!!! they probably docked the boat in some secret corner at the boat yard, pulled a tarp over the cockpit… fooled around with pakalolo and each other for a few weeks (months?), making plans, getting goofy under deck, new romance and all that… then decided to really go sailing…made it to wherever, a week or two out… and just called it a day. 
The biggest thing that I find difficult to accept is that two people, one with no sailing experience, would think they could sail a boat that size 1600 miles in the open ocean. The largest sailboat I’ve been on is a 21 footer and I wouldn’t want to sail it on a 10 mile trip across a protected bay or inland lake on a nice calm day with only one other experienced crewmate. There is just too much that can go wrong and turn a pleasant trip into a life-threatening journey through hell. On a trip that long, someone could get sick, fall and break a bone (perhaps, if you’re lucky, just a sprain?). If someone (or, perhaps, one of the dogs) fell overboard, what then?
No, I can’t see anyone with any sailing experience wanting to take that on, unless they were set-up and prepared to single-hand the whole trip. That someone with no experience would think it sounded like a good idea is just beyond belief.
It wouldn’t surprise me if dead bodies weren’t involved, somewhere.
Pretty stupid blog piece.
Most of these claims have already been completely debunked upthread (e.g. they also ate nuts which are calorically dense and contain protein, n-6 essential fatty acids, and several other nutrients), but it’s possible to go months without eating anything:
But Highly amusing!
Neither of those women, nor the dogs, looked like they went months without eating anything.
And that snarky bit in the blog didn’t negate the entire analysis. It will take a lot to convince me that this isn’t some kind of stunt.
Is there a detailed list of what they brought onboard food-wise?
I’m not aware of the sea hags ever claiming that they or their dogs didn’t have plenty to eat. This is perfectly consistent with them not looking like they went months without eating.
I was commenting on the statement that it’s possible to go months without eating…
50 foot boat with one crew member and one passenger for a a two to three week trip-What happens if the only person that has even been out on such a vessel is injured r sick? What is the normal crew size for such a vessel for that long a trip?
Why did they supposedly bring 4 to 6 times the normal amount of food?
What the fuck happened to all the communication devices they had on board? I hope someone does a thorough inspection of them.
If she knows. Suppose that, a few days out from Hawaii, they encounter a small storm. Not actually enough to be worth worrying about, but on a sailboat on the open ocean, it feels far worse than anything the landlubber has ever experienced. The more experienced woman, who’s the only one of the two who actually knows, tells her that it was a “level 11 storm”, or whatever. Does she have any reason to doubt that?
Likewise, if the more experienced one tells the less experienced one that the mast is too damaged to sail, or that the engine is broken and unrepairable, or whatever. The less experienced one can’t know any better.
If the more experienced one was lying, it might come out from experts examining the engine or mast or weather records or whatever, but it won’t come out from the other woman, at least until after the experts have already had their say. And even then, something like Munchausen’s Syndrome might still have her defending her captor.
Well, according to several sources there was a good reason for them to refuse rescue from the fishing vessel:
Maybe someone wanted publicity, and a rescue from a fishing boat just wouldn’t cut it?
There is no “normal crew size”. It’s quite common for people to do single handed passages.
I have not heard it reported, but my assumption is that the vessel was abandoned at sea after the were rescued. I doubt very much anyone will bother going through the expense of retrieving it, let alone doing a forensic analysis just to prove them to be liars.
I can’t do YouTube links at work-what size vessels were used in these voyages?
They accused the fishing boat of striking their vessel and damaging it. That would be good enough reason to examine it.
They vary so no standard to be had.
Tania Ebai famously sailed around the world single alone in her 26 foot sloop when she was 18 y.o.
Laura Dekker sailed single handed round the world in a 40 food ketch.
That’s just two examples of many such voyages.
Boats well over 50 feet are sailed and handled safely and effectively by a single person. I’ve sailed a 45 foot boat effectively alone. Once I’m out of the slip, I’m good to single hand most cruising type sailboats.