Greta, The Magical Retard

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Sails on the sea…

Greta Thunberg continues to set the bar high when it comes to rethinking the way we travel. The young environmental activist has refused to fly to the up and coming climate conference in Madrid, setting sail from America yesterday.

Via email (lightly edited);

I’m not wishing them any ill luck but I’ve made two trips from Sidney to Glacier Bay by slow boat. It can get real nasty out there and there’s a good reason why real sailors don’t cross the North Atlantic at the end of November. The Met forecast for that area really sucks – that big red blob is every bit as nasty as it looks.
 
She’s onboard Lavagabonde. Its crewed by a husband and wife who are internet darlings with 4 years of ocean passage “experience”. Their Facebook page is a hoot. There’s 4 adults plus Greta and their 11 month old baby on this publicity stunt. That’s the two principals on Lavag plus Greta’s dad plus one woman who may actually have some real blue water experience. They left New York (?) on Thursday.
 
If you look closely you can see some disagreement about the course in the early going. This is obviously just a WAG but it looks to me as though they chickened out and followed the coast so they could duck back in if it got too nasty. Then whatever happened early Saturday in the dark and they abruptly turned through 100+ degrees to head where they want to go. That’s a 3 week crossing in a capable boat and there’s some dispute whether this is the right boat. The heroes were given the boat as a publicity stunt by the mfr. They’re not going to want to see it go down and I’d be willing to bet there’s a chase vessel somewhere nearby.
 
I’ve never done this kind of a passage but I have some experience with bad conditions and long (18 hour) passages. Even the most capable sailors get seasick and it can completely debilitate you. You can’t think straight and you just want to curl up in a ball. My experience is on power boats where you don’t have to manage sails and move around on slippery decks with big things banging at your head in the wind. On a power boat when it gets ugly you close the doors, turn up the heat, turn on the autopilot and slow down. If you look at the Met forecast they’ve got 30+ foot stuff ahead of them and that means that the average height of the largest 1/3 of the waves are over 30 feet. Individual waves could be more than twice that and they’re short period waves which are the absolute worst. Long rollers can be huge and not bother you but short square shit is just plain nasty.
 
That big red ball is forecast to move slowly SE before turning NE. Right now its about where George Clooney went down in The Perfect Storm.

84 Replies to “Greta, The Magical Retard”

  2. I did that trip on an ore carrier sailing in ballast from UK to Quebec in October1969. The author above has said it right. Never have I wanted off a ship so badly. You eat then throw up over and over, everything that isn’t tied down is sliding around. When you’re on the bridge and still looking up for the horizon is something to experience, the next moment you’re looking down into a valley with 40 foot waves.
    Greta deserves this real life experience.

    1. With a puking defecating child. In the video (in as close to flat calm as you’re likely to get in November) they’re all neat and clean. After a few typical days it won’t be so rosy. Stench. Bad temper.

      1. The Riley looks like a typical rich kid. He’s equipped himself with some good T&A though that reedy voice is no pleasure. He probably isn’t interested in the kid. I bet both Eleyna and the kid are taken off maybe with St. Greta.

    1. My thoughts exactly. Sailed the coast and switched to a professional crew when noone was looking before crossing. Look for a crew change again at the Azores.

    2. Edward, I certainly wouldn’t take that bet! This kind of fakery has been done before,remember Paul Watson’s famous kayak trip from Vancouver to San Diego? Not ONE member of the media would expose Greta even if they saw her leave the boat in NY harbor.

    3. This about sums it up. There’s no way she’s on board, other than to take the photo op at the beginning and the end. Do people really think she was on board the first crossing? I’d bet thousands against it.

      If she is crazy enough to be on board, I would absolutely dance a jig upon hearing news of it’s loss. With the only exception being the infant because they have been given no choice in the matter. Even then, there’s a case to be made that they would probably better off dead than raised by these lunatics. But in terms of the adults on board, there’s no big loss and a great amount to gain from this imbecile ceasing her destructive, regressive PR campaign.

      Then again, global warming being the religious cult that it is, her death would be a martyrdom and our lives would probably get worse.

  4. I just hope they make it. If she goes down Greta will become a martyr of even greater importance to the movement than Osama bin Laden.

    1. There is a very simple and inexpensive way for all those who wish to reduce their “carbon footprint” to do so. Tie a plastic bag over your heads, tightly, and that will stop the emission of CO2 that they are all so concerned about. Then the rest of us can get on with our miserable lives.

  6. Call on your Goddess Gayee (gaiaiaia) Greta! Reminds me of having to memorize the Longfellow poem, “The Wreck of the Hesperus” Bunch of effing lunatics.
    I can imagine how this will all be spun. The Shield Maiden Greta ThingBorg conquering the winter gales fighting on in the name of Climate Crisis to save the planet. Too bad they could not have taken some of the Shit Spinners from the CBC along to weave a tale of BS in the name GAYEE (gaiiia).

    1. OWG

      “..The Shield Maiden Greta ThingBorg…”
      Now thats not just good, that’s downright outstanding..LMAO.!!
      ya made my mornin..
      Tks… (again)

  9. Using the Wave function on Ventusky the boat is in 12 ft waves coming from the south as they head east. If you think Greta was grumpy and malnourished before, wait and see what’s she’s like after a day or two of continuous vomiting….

  10. It’s no perfect storm by any stretch, just a bog standard Atlantic low, but I wouldn’t want to be out in it.

    These wild delusions are taking hold of vast sectors of our society, the leaders of both the Bloc and the NDP gave full respect to the cult of Gaia in interviews I just saw, and part of the spinout from that is, they both say to western Canada, you know what, you can shove your oil and if you don’t like it, leave.

    So I think that means leave.

  11. A buddy used to be in the RCN out of Halifax. HMCS Ville De Quebec; like 450′ long war frigate equipped with AD missiles. He told me to cross the north Atlantic in the winter was a big test. Turned boys into men.

    1. Did the passage on HMCS Fraser in early spring and only remember that after one day out most of us where hunkered down in the fetal position till we got clear of the trough.
      Lost about a day and a half till we all got our sea legs.
      Only officer that had the stomach to stand watch for the first couple of days was the DO. Must have been a bet going in the officers mess that whoever could take the heavy weather going out was excused for duty on the first port of call.

      To the point at hand.
      Don’t want to have anything tragic happening to those that should know better, but a good tossing around at sea tends to rattle the mind in way that makes one reconsider their behaviour.

  12. hell she could just swim the atlantic, it’s not the pacific. And the scow she’s on has a functioning heads, no schitt

  14. Scoldilocks is a misanthropic turd.
    She could care less if any of us froze to death because we had no fossil fuels to provide heat.
    Her arrogance is a poor disguise for her ignorance so if Mother Nature puts her in a watery grave, oh well.
    And if that makes her a martyr like James suggests, I’m okay with that.
    Let every other snot-nosed teenager with all the answers follow her.
    As for the adult “leaders” who bow down to a child as if she’s some prophet, you can all drink some Jim Jones Kool aid ASAP.

  15. Crazy Cat Lady Lizzie May wants Blackie to attend the global warming scam conference in Spain. We can only hope that Saint Greta gets off the boat and pukes all over him, before she starts ranting how dare you.

  17. That’s why the parents are to blame. To sail out into the Atlantic in winter going the hard way (east vs west) in a 50′ island hopper catamaran with baby on board is beyond my belief. Worked 2 year offshore east coast in 450′ freighter and saw what’s available out there. Like chris c said, where you are looking up for the top of the next wave, it’s humbling. To put your children into that kind of peril for a publicity stunt is special kind of madness. I hope for the kid’s sake that they make it ( with a new perspective on things) and if real trouble arises, will she accept the rescue from that gaia murdering, childhood stealing diesel freighter?

    1. ” …why the parents are to blame. … To put your children into that kind of peril for a publicity stunt is special kind of madness. …”

      I notice they are developing a tendency to not sail with her. Perhaps she’s worth more to them as a martyr, and she can’t be much fun to live with on land with all the comforts of home, never mind in a small sailboat on the wintry ocean.

  18. Sailed, actually motored as the Med was almost dead calm, on the Royal Clipper for 11 days in mid August. The ship is 439 feet long with 5 masts and an incredible amount of sheets and lines for the square rigger. Talked to the first mate and he said they cross over to the Caribbean for the winter cruises in November and the crossing can be rough but not too bad. Coming back in the spring to the Med is not a trip you want to be on he said.

  19. There’s an actual, genuine baby on board with them. No kidding. Child abuse and child endangerment. Mind you, babies don’t get sea sick!

  20. See how much easier life is with fossil fuels? Greta will soon tire of this bullshit and begin to accept flights on private jets with celebrities and other people who matter.

  21. If she goes down the global green elite will be secretly overwhelmed with joy. Greta had some impact while alive, as a martyr she’s be ten times as effective at indoctrinating schoolchildren and the feeble-minded.

    2. “She’s known for her work on …”

      Not exactly leading lady(?) qualifications. However … as the… “Unsinkable Greta Thunberg” …
      She might just put Swedish cinema back on the map!

  24. There are reasons why air travel is superior to sailing.

    There are reasons why we use the products we do : fossil fuels/internal combustion engines, fertilizers/pesticide/herbicides, create high yield crops/ high resistant crops, invented vaccinations, eat meat, etc. Not on a whim but because they work and have resulted wealthier, healthier humans. The richest, best fed, longest living humans who have ever walked the earth. Free minds, free markets

    It’s a shame to see the most clueless, most authoritarian, most cultishly woke and most anti human people be given the so much power. Their lack of understanding of safe and efficient travel, energy systems and food production doesn’t bode well for the future.

      1. What we’re seeing works somewhat like the three generation rule of wealthy families:

        1. The first generation works like hell and manages to build a fortune
        2. The second generation is instilled with some of the discipline to maintain the wealth but perhaps too optimistically relies on the knowledge that they’ll get inheritance from the first generation.
        3. The third generation hasn’t seen the effort required to ensure a safe and comfortable retirement. It usually & mostly fails to save money in any meaningful way or wisely invest any money they may have inherited from prior generations. Often they spend any capital they’ve acquired trying to keep up with their wealthier friends. They end up frittering away the wealth.

        1. – As family farmers put that,

          “The first generation starts it,
          The second generation builds it,
          The third generation drinks it.”

  25. While she is barfing over the side, I hope she takes some time to ponder the multiple elitists that she is shilling for that are probably passing her overhead at that moment, sipping cocktails and eating hors-d’oeuvres in the fossil-fuelled luxury of their private jets.

    1. I feel sad for Greta. She has been blackmailed by a lost, delusional generation of poorly-educated adults, and she is being used by those same adults in ways she can’t possibly imagine.

  26. Well, I suppose all the good Christians here had better pray for Saint Greta’s safe journey.. God and Allah combined forbid she should be caught in a powerful storm and her little boat capsize with the loss of all aboard.

    Quit risking other people’s live,Saint Greta,and take a f***ing plane. Gaia won’t mind,She’s forgiven Saint David, Saint Al, Saint Michael,Saint Elizabeth, so I’m sure you’re okay with hopping a crowdfunded dreamliner to Madrid.

  27. Not sure how to take this one. I’m not one to wish misfortune on people, but these fools are asking for it. On the one hand they are stupid and foolish to try this. This is suicide. Then they will probably risk the lives of the coast guards/Search and Rescue outfit that will have to save their asses. All this to impose climate change tyranny on the West, and enable carbon credit billionaires scheme. The only reason they should remain afloat is that baby.

    1. There are at least a handful of pleasure vessels in the same waters (within 1000 miles from shore). There are at least a dozen pleasure vessels crossing (most heading West). Clearly this is not “suicide.” It may be ill-advised, especially with baby on board, but these people decided to take the risk and the consequences are on them.

  28. notice the photo in the linked article, her dad is not included … my guess is to not detract from his Gnome and her cool new friends

  29. OTOH …

    Little Greta is now a seasoned mariner. Didn’t she make it cross the Atlantic just a couple months ago? Hell, she’ll be singlehandedly trimming the mainsail! She’ll be swinging from a bosuns chair tied to the main mast.

    And what’s all this worry over a “November” Atlantic passage? Rubbish. Global Warming has transformed November into the new August, right? Greta KNOWS climate … and KNOWS that November will bring clear weather and calm seas. I’ll bet NOAA has even printed out some bright RED and ORANGE heat maps … convincing her that the Atlantic is at its WARMEST EVER!!!

    Into the abyss … go the contemporary explorers … riding the uncharted warmist waves to spread their “beliefs” in the New World … and then back to the Old World.

    1. Nonsense – the Atlantic is in a foul mood all the time, and in Winter it’s in an awful mood – I’ve seen 700′ merchant ships lift their props out of the water.

      But it’ll be just fine for Saint Greta – lovely clear blue skies, gentle following breezes – just enough wind to assure lavaga gets there nicely on time, not enough to cast-up uncomfortable waves – and nice and warm with lots of sun so she can sunbathe on deck and arrive in Madrid fashionably tanned!

      – No other weather conditions are acceptable; Mother Nature Wouldn’t DARE!

  30. By my count there are two and 1/2 crew capable of working that boat. The hired skipper, the male vlogger, and 1/2 his wife/partner. She will likely spend at least half her time caring for the little one, or maybe he will, either way the caregiver is not available full time. That is not nearly enough crew to safely cross the Atlantic, with or without storms. Hopefully your email correspondent is correct that there is a chase boat with seasoned and experienced sailors. Also, let’s hope Greta and the two vloggers, and their baby, had the good sense to get off the boat somewhere along the coast.

  31. Please tell me she’s not on a catamaran. I just checked. She’s on a catamaran. If it flips they’re doomed.
    Also, it’s highly unlikely they’d be able to tack it against the wind without the use of the engine especially in heavy winds/seas. I sailed from Honolulu to Victoria on a 45 ft sloop. I’ve got a strong stomach and never did throw up, but during storms in the gulf of Alaska, none of us got a wink of sleep for several nights in a row. The north Atlantic will likely be worse — not the sort of passage to which one would subject an 11- month old if one were a responsible adult, but then . . .

  32. I looked at their course. It makes sense. They appear to have headed south in order to take advantage of going with the wind or using the cross wind for a beam reach which would be the fastest and most efficient point of sail for any boat, especially a catamaran which would struggle to beat to windward more so than a standard sloop.

  34. He’s not wishing them any ill luck?

    You’d need a heart of stone not to wish them ill luck.

  35. yep.
    like so many other instances, the PUBLICITY these idjits have garnered, has caused the cause to take on a life of its own,
    thus displacing common sense and inducing them to opt for what will be a *very* challenging voyage on the waves.

    to save face as the saying goes.

  36. So, exactly how will the rescue be effected in mid-Atlantic in November? Ship? Helicopter? Which Navy ship will just happen to “be in the area” when their SOS goes out?

  37. If this ship of fools is being shadowed by a fossil-fuelled rescue boat, isn’t this sort of defeating the purpose however deranged it may be?

  38. They’ll be fine…I sail in that stuff. The boat is very good blue water cat and they have professional weather routing…who ever wrote this article is an idiot hating on a kid…grow up.

    1. The Troll is not a kid. And I can’t stand the pompous little braindead PUKE…..
      HOW DARE YOU ED……

  39. The only thing I know about sailing is that it’s hard to drink beer in rough weather. But what perplexes me is the amount of effort it takes for this girl to travel.

    2. Welcome to the post-carbon world. ALL TRAVEL is going to take enormous effort and planning and expense for at least several decades, until technology eventually (possibly? hopefully?) catches up.

  40. Yep, I spent a few years in the merchant marine 67 through 72. Yep I’ve been through some dandy storms in the north Atlantic. The worst one I remember was late 68, and heading west from Belgium to Montreal. It took us several days extra just to plow forward…couldn’t dare turn around. We even rigged a rope and using a belt with a shackle to get from midship to aft and back. If you did a jump just as she was crashing down into a valley, you could remain airborne for about six or seven seconds. Don’t seem like much on paper, but wow what an adrenalin surge. Anyway, the ship that came in a day or two later behind us, lost a bunch of their rigging and some derricks as well. They apparently were at sea for 20 days, the trip usually is about 14. They were being pushed five knots astern for three days, as they plowed ahead. If the gnome queen makes it, she’ll be crowned, and a martyr if she doesn’t. A win win for the greenies!

  41. So how much CO2 was emitted in the construction of that Catamaran with its fiberglass hull, nylon rigging, kevlar sails, stainless steel fittings, twin diesels auxiliary engines, plastic black and gray water holding tanks (Gaia forbid they break the law and dump raw sewage over the side!) When you look at it the majority of the boat is a product of the petro-chemical industry from its hull to its rigging to its sails, it is like they are enclosed in chemically solidified oil products. Hopefully none of them are wearing any Helly Hansen modern waterproofed sailing gear but are relying on the good old wax based oilskins and rubber wellys and only wearing cotton and linen next to their skin. I am sure that the boat is also heated by solar charged electrical heaters not any efficient oil or propane heaters.

  43. Off to Sunny Spain in a Plastic Sailboat the total Hypocricy is standing out like sore thumb

  44. In a perfect world, something bad will happen to the boat BUT everyone aboard will be rescued safe and sound AND the Greta will be found to have not been on board. . . . I can only dream, I guess.

  45. Late comment, but no one has mentioned “Saving Private Ryan”
    rather “Saving Stupid Greta” and how much fun it will be when the vessel Trump ordered into the vicinity has to effect the rescue.
    No martyrdom for our little Darwinian prophecy. I’m really looking forward the “Thankyou President Trump” interview on CNN. Like THAT would ever happen, but still… that would be sweet and I’d be surprised if it hasn’t been considered at the W.H.

      1. Nuclear power is clean and emission-free. Much better if she were to be rescued by a bunker-fuel-powered oil tanker.

  46. The truth, as one anonymous blogger aptly put it, is that your generation is unable to work up to forty hours per week without being chronically depressed and anxious. Its members cannot even decide if they want to be a boy or a girl, or both, or neither, or a “they.” They cannot eat meat without crying. I might add that your generation needs “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” as pre-conditions for learning in school. Its members have a pathological need to be coddled and protected from the challenging realities of life. Your generation is the biggest demander and consumer of carbon spewing technological gadgets and devices. An hour without any of them and too many of you succumb to paralyzing lethargy. Your generation is the least curious and most insular set of individuals one has ever encountered. Your hubris extends so far that you think you have nothing to learn from your elders.

    Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.

  47. What poop for brains is sailing this boat? 24 knot wind and only making 5.5 knots? Gosh I’ve only had a couple dozen hours in a sailboat, but could trim better than that. I imagine it would make for a smoother ride as well.

    1. 24 kts brings big waves with it – they’re in a small (compared to the Atlantic) boat and they’ve got a kid aboard, so they’ve got to be able to move about the cabin, and change diapers ( – wonder if they’re using disposables? 😉 without worrying about the kid being pitched across the room. And they’re sailing downwind, which cat’s aren’t especially good at; they actually cover more distance across a downwind than in a straight run (so my book says), and Riley was talking about “3 reefs”. I wonder they are out there at all – it’s wonderful publicity for them, but even free publicity can come with too high a price.

  48. The big red spot is inching up to 47+ kts and 8m swell. If they get caught in that, it’s going to be a trip to remember! If they are smart they’d set a straight course for West Africa, and then do a Vasco da Gama back to Portugal…

  49. Well, after watching Sailing La Vagabonde for a solid 4 years, they finally found a way to lose my subscription. I couldn’t get through their weekly video last night after reading this news. I knew they were a little hot on the environazi movement, but associating with the little retard is just more than I can take.
    Their Outremer Cat is a good boat and I don’t doubt it will carry them through the toughest seas, but they may have just sunk their youtube channel.

  50. There have been a (mercifully) few fools on this thread claiming that this is a normal crossing. Go to http://www.marinetraffic.com and filter for pleasure craft (left pane). What you’ll see is a very small parade of craft heading EXCLUSIVELY east to west along a very southern route. North of Bermuda – absolutely nothing. That tells me a couple of things – they’re out there alone and they’re too freaking stupid to broadcast an AIS signal. There’s lots of commercial traffic so if they get in a jam some old freighter burning bunker oil will no doubt rescue their stupid asses.

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