Here is my question for those in the know - regarding the ocean currents of the mid-pacific. OK, so they say they got to Christmas Island in the nation of Kiribati (south of Hawaii), they say they went past Wake Island (due east of Hawaii), and then they were picked-up 900 miles off the coast of Japan (east of Wake Island and also east of Hawaii).
I can understand of someone left Hawaii on a boat, and then the boat became disabled, that they would drift on equatorial ocean currents to the east (if such currents exist at that time of the year - I assume they do - can someone comment?).
But, is it possible that they could have drifted south first, then east-northeast toward Wake Island and Japan? Do mid-summer, mid-Pacific ocean currents permit such a trip?
Likewise, would winds that time of year permit that?
I’ve mentioned above that I don’t think the equatorial currents and prevailing winds would permit simply drifting passively from the South Pacific to the North Pacific. If they crossed the Equator in either direction, they must have had some sailing capacity. But they have said that the problem with the mast just limited their maneuverability and speed. They clearly had some capacity to sail.
The fact that they got to Wake Island would suggest that they must have had some ability to navigate and steer. Wake is a long way from anywhere. It would be unlikely you would just happen to drift by it by accident.
It may be getting weirder, but it’s also getting more consistent. She’s a thorough ditz, whether by birth or post- the unfortunate motorcycle accident.
All else follows (erratically and chaotically) from that. No need for hoaxes, dominatrixes, hidden islands, or any of the other distractions.
Just chaotic thinking chaotically applied. And a massive dollop of luck.
She should’ve stayed home and bought a Powerball instead. She’d be rolling in it right now. Or maybe she’d have forgotten where she put the ticket.
“broke nearly every bone in her body”, while I don’t have the facts, this doesn’t really sound plausible to me. Makes me wonder about any other of their facts. Over 200 bones in the human body. If one took 75% to be “nearly every” that would be over 150 fractures. I sincerely doubt it. I could see breaking many long bones but you’d have to break an awful lot of hand and foot bone to be nearly every. Of course I doubt the ladies facts also.
Of course that’s not literally true. It’s a bit of hyperbole related by Kalinowski about an event that must have happened 20 years before he met Appel. But given Appel’s tendency to exaggeration, it might have been what she told him.
Agreed. It was said of Evel Kneivel that he had broken every bone at least once. That feat took him a lifetime of diligent work. And was still hyperbole. One accident? No way. Unless she rode her motorbike off a very tall building, and probably not even then.
As Colibri said, just one more tall tale in a life seemingly full of them.
In USAF flying we had a saying: “The older I get the better I was!” Maybe the Army had something similar. It sure seems to apply to Appell.
It makes me wonder just how lucrative an occupation dominatrix is. Given her erratic employment, I wonder where she got enough money to buy and restore a boat and stock it with six months of food.
One of the occupations they list for her is “skydiving instructor.”:eek::eek::eek:
The Daily Mail says her erotic novel The Original Niagara Falls Angel Falls: The Nephilim Stories Part One is still available for purchase on-line, but Googling doesn’t turn up anything.
“Appel was living on her boat the FSOW at the time of the crash (pictured). She was forced to coach surf for a time afterwards .”
Mind, from what we think we know of Appel so far, that might NOT have been a typo. (“coach” vs “couch”)
A bit off topic, but they also call her a “kinky sailor” like that is a BAD thing…
(I hope her Dom abilities are much better than her sailing abilities, but her apparent inability to understand how to properly use her sailing and safety equipment, and unwillingness to quit on a scene, should probably give one pause.)
