Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )
05-13-2005, 02:19 PM
I read this story in one of the local papers. :(
http://www.thejournaln ews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050511/NEWS04/505110386/-1/spider (http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050511/NEWS04/505110386/-1/spider)
Patterson sailboat captain mourned
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
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(Original publication: May 11, 2005)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Thomas Tighe, the Patterson sailboat captain who died Monday after his 45-foot ketch, Almeisan, was caught in a fierce storm while sailing to Bermuda, was more than just an adequate sailor, his friends at Captain's Cove Seaport said yesterday.
"He was a very accomplished navigator, probably the best I knew," said Tom Jacobson, harbor master at Captain's Cove, a popular marina in Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor that is home to about 350 vessels during the summer.
"We often discussed the various ways to navigate — GPS (global positioning system), the stars, the sun — and Tom could get you there any of those ways. I'm sort of a student of navigation and, from time to time, we'd talk about how to get places," said Jacobson, 53. "I often sought his advice."
Tighe, 65, his first mate, Lochlin Reidy, 58, of Woodbridge, Conn., and three other people left last week from Captain's Cove for what was to have been a leisurely weeklong sail to Bermuda. But a nor'easter that was supposed to hug the coast on its way toward New England instead blew out to sea, catching them in strong winds and high seas late Saturday and early Sunday some 400 miles off the Virginia coast.
"You never know what the weather will do," said Kaye Williams, 76, who runs the marina with his children. "I was caught in a hurricane in that same area when I was 19. I know what it's like."
"It can be good sailing when, all of a sudden, you get caught in a storm," said Jack Gaida, a resident of Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley who often spoke with Tighe at the marina. "You never know what's going to happen. It can be calm as possible, then, all of a sudden, you get a nor'easter. That storm hit them in the middle of the night, which is probably the worst thing."
Tighe and Reidy were preparing an inflatable lifeboat early Sunday when a wave washed them overboard. Tighe, of Sunset Drive, Patterson, already had put out a distress call. Coast Guard vessels and aircraft converged on the scene, along with a Panamanian merchant tanker, Sakura Express.
The tanker's crew rescued Reidy about 4 a.m. Monday and found Tighe's body about 90 minutes later. The tanker arrived yesterday afternoon in Boston. The other three people aboard the Almeisan — two men and a woman — were rescued from the boat Sunday night by the Coast Guard and flown to Nantucket.
One of them, Ronald Burd, 70, of New Hampshire, told interviewers that the tanker and a Navy ship tried unsuccessfully to rescue the threesome before a Coast Guard helicopter plucked them to safety about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
Rich Pawlowski, a boater from Monroe, Conn., said Tighe had a reputation as a sailor who always was prepared.
"And as far as seaworthiness, he had one of the best boats in this harbor," Pawlowski said.
Stratford, Conn., resident Andy Trosan, who was shooting the breeze with them aboard Gaida's cabin cruiser, Hi Jack, had weathered 50-foot waves in the North Sea as a Navy seaman on a submarine in the early 1950s.
"I remember how rough that was," Trosan said. "I can only imagine what 20-foot seas must be like in a 45-foot sailboat."
Family mourns loss of sailor
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
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Tighe funeral
The funeral for Thomas Tighe of Patterson, who died in a sailing accident this week, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Church in Putnam Lake. The wake will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Dwyer Funeral Home in Patterson.
(Original publication: May 13, 2005)
PATTERSON — Anne Tighe was still coming to terms yesterday with the death of her husband in a violent storm in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.
But, much like Thomas Tighe, the captain of the sailboat who lost his life while scrambling to save his crew, her thoughts were of the others on board the Almeisan, a 45-foot ketch that was bound for Bermuda.
"It is a comfort to me that the other members of the crew survived," she said in an interview at her Sunset Drive home. "My husband would have been devastated if something had happened to them."
As Anne Tighe and her three grown children, Thomas and Peter Tighe and Catherine Chamberlain, prepared for a funeral, she expressed their gratitude to Tighe's first mate and longtime friend, Lochlin Reidy of Woodbridge, Conn., who clung to Tighe's body for hours as they rolled on the churning seas.
Anne Tighe said she had an emotional conversation with Reidy this week.
"Loch is an amazing man," she said, her eyes filling with tears. "To have Tom's body and to know that he was not lost at sea ... we will never forget what Loch did for us. I spoke to him earlier this week, but we have to talk again."
Tighe, 65, Reidy, 58, and three others who had met Tighe through sailing seminars he taught cast off May 3 from Bridgeport, Conn., for Bermuda — a sail Tighe had made close to 50 times. They set a course far from the coast to avoid a storm moving up the eastern seaboard and to reach the Gulf Stream.
But the storm went far to the east, and the Almeisan got caught in it last weekend some 330 miles south of Bridgeport.
About 3 a.m. Sunday, a powerful wave slammed the boat, capsizing it briefly. The boat righted itself, but Tighe, an experienced navigator, felt his crew would be safer in an inflatable life raft.
He and Reidy were tethered to the Almeisan and preparing the life raft when another strong wave hit, knocking them loose from their harnesses and throwing them into the violent swells.
Reidy said the raft and the Almeisan disappeared from sight, but he and Tighe caught up to each other and connected their life jackets. Reidy figures that was about 4 a.m. Sunday. Within seven hours, Tighe was dead, an apparent drowning victim, but Reidy refused to let him go. He clung to his friend until early Monday, when the merchant tanker Sakura Express pulled him, then the captain's body, from the sea.
"We're taking it one step at a time," Anne Tighe said yesterday. "I am getting stronger, but it's going to be hard. Tom retired last year. I was going to retire soon, and we were looking forward to a different lifestyle."
She said her husband, who had a career in industrial sales, looked forward to sharing his love of sailing with his two grandchildren, Lauren and Michael, the children of their son, Thomas.
The younger Thomas Tighe said he learned countless lessons from his father — "all the little things that add up to who you are" — including to always be prepared.
Anne Tighe, who had sailed many times with her husband since they bought the Almeisan in 1981, said she always knew of the inherent dangers of the sea, but felt that if anyone was prepared for them, it was her husband.
Several veteran sailors and boaters at Captain's Cove Seaport in Bridgeport, where Tighe docked the Almeisan, agreed that Tighe perhaps was the most prepared and skilled captain they knew.
"We're realistic," she said of the Bermuda trips. "We always knew it was a difficult and risky undertaking. That's why Tom was so safety conscious. We're just thankful that no one else was hurt."
Sailboat survivor recalls harrowing experience
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 12, 2005)
WOODBRIDGE, Conn. — Lochlin Reidy and Thomas Tighe had been rolling on the violent swells of the Atlantic Ocean for about seven hours Sunday, tethered to one another, when Reidy looked over and realized that his longtime friend — his captain — was dead.
They had been thrown from Tighe's sailboat, the Almeisan, about 4 a.m. after encountering a brutal storm that had briefly capsized the 45-foot ketch. The two, with a crew of three others, were en route to Bermuda from Bridgeport, Conn., when the storm hit some 400 feet off the Virginia coast.
They spent the next 24 hours in the water together, even after Tighe's death. Throughout the ordeal, which included 20-foot seas and wind gusts of up to 48 knots, Reidy, 58, refused to let his friend go.
"I wanted to make sure he got home," Reidy said of the 65-year-old Patterson resident, his voice wavering, during an interview yesterday at his home near New Haven. "I figured the only way he could do that was with me, so we stayed together.
"I gave him his last rites as best I could — I hope I did it right — then I gave him a kiss for his family, and we continued on."
Reidy did his best over those hours to chase negative thoughts out of his head, riding out the waves — and the disappointment of hearing planes overhead but not being seen.
He focused on the positive — his wife, Sandra, his 13-year-old daughter Ashley's upcoming softball schedule and how he'd have to see the renovations his grown daughter, Denise, was doing to her home. But he said he also endured hallucinations that had him talking to the sea.
"It was just a will to live and to get Tom home," Reidy said. "I would catch myself thinking that I was going to miss this or that, but then I wouldn't let myself go down that road, so I tried to stay positive and think of a plan."
Reidy and Tighe met many years ago when a mutual acquaintance introduced them, knowing their common interest in sailing. Reidy grew up on Long Island and had been sailing since age 14. Tighe was considered the consummate captain, an accomplished navigator who had made the sail to Bermuda close to 50 times and taught seminars on making the trip. They became close friends and sailed to Bermuda 15 times over the years.
"Captain Tighe and I just hit it off," Reidy said. "He was very particular about who went on his trips, and I was honored to be with him."
The two, with a crew of two men and a woman whom Tighe had met while teaching his seminar, departed Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor about 11:30 p.m. May 3. Initial reports indicated a storm would be coming up the East Coast, so they went farther out to sea to avoid it and reach the Gulf Stream.
Winds started to pick up late Friday into early Saturday, so they charted a course farther east. The winds kept increasing as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning.
"We had the sails down, and we kept the motors running to keep the batteries charged," Reidy said.
Reidy was coming off a watch at 3 a.m. Sunday, he said, and was discussing the weather with Tighe and another crew member, Kathleen Gilchrist of Bloomfield, N.J., when a massive wave capsized the boat.
"The boat righted itself, which they're designed to do, and we found everyone. Kathy was tossed over the side, but she was harnessed in and we pulled her back," he said.
They realized that another wave like that would cause serious damage to the Almeisan, so Tighe decided to deploy an inflatable life raft.
Just as they did, the wind yanked the raft to the end of its line. They managed to pull it back, although it was somehow hooked on the Almeisan's stern. Reidy got in the raft as Tighe tried to free the line that was attached to the stern. Both men were tossed into the water, their harness lines broken, when another wave slammed the vessel.
Fortunately, Tighe already had sent out a distress call and activated an emergency-positioning device.
Reidy said he lost view of the life raft and the Almeisan within seconds as he rolled on the heaving seas. A few minutes later, he heard Tighe, and they swam to each other and hooked themselves together.
Reidy figures that Tighe died about 11 a.m. Sunday. In the hours that followed, he tried to stay focused and positive. As it got dark about 7 p.m., he held aloft a beacon, hoping it would be seen. About 2 a.m. Monday, a C-130 airplane flew low overhead and banked, but Reidy said he wasn't sure if it was a hallucination.
"There was a lot of phosphorous in the water, and every time a wave would break, the water would glow," he said.
When Reidy finally saw the deck lights of the merchant tanker Sakura Express about 2 a.m., he thought it was the phosphorous. A C-130 then started dropping flares to light up the night. After two harrowing hours when the waves would pull him away from the tanker, Reidy finally swam toward the ship and made vocal contact with those on deck.
They lowered a cargo net, and he had to cut Tighe loose before they pulled him up. Tighe's body was recovered 90 minutes later.
"A huge factor that played into his survival was the fact that the water was 70 degrees," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Newlin. "If it were much colder, the chance of survival would be greatly decreased. It was also good that he was wearing a life jacket."
The three others had been rescued from the Almeisan on Sunday night.
The Sakura Express arrived in Boston on Tuesday afternoon. Reidy walked off the boat, thanking every Coast Guard member he could.
"In my mind, when I shook their hands, I was thanking every person who assisted in the search. I'll never forget it," he said.
At one point, as the tanker was approaching him, Reidy said to the waves, "They're coming to get me. Now stop."
Three successive waves then slammed him.
"It was like the ocean didn't want me to get away, but I did."
Reidy, who had an emotional conversation with Tighe's wife yesterday and planned to visit her last night, said he hoped to sail again one day.
"But not today and not tomorrow," he said. "This has changed my whole outlook on what the ocean is about."
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Patterson sailboat captain mourned
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Related Articles:
• Family mourns loss of sailor
• Sailboat survivor recalls harrowing experience
• Patterson sailboat captain dies at sea
(Original publication: May 11, 2005)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Thomas Tighe, the Patterson sailboat captain who died Monday after his 45-foot ketch, Almeisan, was caught in a fierce storm while sailing to Bermuda, was more than just an adequate sailor, his friends at Captain's Cove Seaport said yesterday.
"He was a very accomplished navigator, probably the best I knew," said Tom Jacobson, harbor master at Captain's Cove, a popular marina in Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor that is home to about 350 vessels during the summer.
"We often discussed the various ways to navigate — GPS (global positioning system), the stars, the sun — and Tom could get you there any of those ways. I'm sort of a student of navigation and, from time to time, we'd talk about how to get places," said Jacobson, 53. "I often sought his advice."
Tighe, 65, his first mate, Lochlin Reidy, 58, of Woodbridge, Conn., and three other people left last week from Captain's Cove for what was to have been a leisurely weeklong sail to Bermuda. But a nor'easter that was supposed to hug the coast on its way toward New England instead blew out to sea, catching them in strong winds and high seas late Saturday and early Sunday some 400 miles off the Virginia coast.
"You never know what the weather will do," said Kaye Williams, 76, who runs the marina with his children. "I was caught in a hurricane in that same area when I was 19. I know what it's like."
"It can be good sailing when, all of a sudden, you get caught in a storm," said Jack Gaida, a resident of Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley who often spoke with Tighe at the marina. "You never know what's going to happen. It can be calm as possible, then, all of a sudden, you get a nor'easter. That storm hit them in the middle of the night, which is probably the worst thing."
Tighe and Reidy were preparing an inflatable lifeboat early Sunday when a wave washed them overboard. Tighe, of Sunset Drive, Patterson, already had put out a distress call. Coast Guard vessels and aircraft converged on the scene, along with a Panamanian merchant tanker, Sakura Express.
The tanker's crew rescued Reidy about 4 a.m. Monday and found Tighe's body about 90 minutes later. The tanker arrived yesterday afternoon in Boston. The other three people aboard the Almeisan — two men and a woman — were rescued from the boat Sunday night by the Coast Guard and flown to Nantucket.
One of them, Ronald Burd, 70, of New Hampshire, told interviewers that the tanker and a Navy ship tried unsuccessfully to rescue the threesome before a Coast Guard helicopter plucked them to safety about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
Rich Pawlowski, a boater from Monroe, Conn., said Tighe had a reputation as a sailor who always was prepared.
"And as far as seaworthiness, he had one of the best boats in this harbor," Pawlowski said.
Stratford, Conn., resident Andy Trosan, who was shooting the breeze with them aboard Gaida's cabin cruiser, Hi Jack, had weathered 50-foot waves in the North Sea as a Navy seaman on a submarine in the early 1950s.
"I remember how rough that was," Trosan said. "I can only imagine what 20-foot seas must be like in a 45-foot sailboat."
Family mourns loss of sailor
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Related Articles:
• Sailboat survivor recalls harrowing experience
• Patterson sailboat captain mourned
• Patterson sailboat captain dies at sea
Tighe funeral
The funeral for Thomas Tighe of Patterson, who died in a sailing accident this week, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Church in Putnam Lake. The wake will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Dwyer Funeral Home in Patterson.
(Original publication: May 13, 2005)
PATTERSON — Anne Tighe was still coming to terms yesterday with the death of her husband in a violent storm in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week.
But, much like Thomas Tighe, the captain of the sailboat who lost his life while scrambling to save his crew, her thoughts were of the others on board the Almeisan, a 45-foot ketch that was bound for Bermuda.
"It is a comfort to me that the other members of the crew survived," she said in an interview at her Sunset Drive home. "My husband would have been devastated if something had happened to them."
As Anne Tighe and her three grown children, Thomas and Peter Tighe and Catherine Chamberlain, prepared for a funeral, she expressed their gratitude to Tighe's first mate and longtime friend, Lochlin Reidy of Woodbridge, Conn., who clung to Tighe's body for hours as they rolled on the churning seas.
Anne Tighe said she had an emotional conversation with Reidy this week.
"Loch is an amazing man," she said, her eyes filling with tears. "To have Tom's body and to know that he was not lost at sea ... we will never forget what Loch did for us. I spoke to him earlier this week, but we have to talk again."
Tighe, 65, Reidy, 58, and three others who had met Tighe through sailing seminars he taught cast off May 3 from Bridgeport, Conn., for Bermuda — a sail Tighe had made close to 50 times. They set a course far from the coast to avoid a storm moving up the eastern seaboard and to reach the Gulf Stream.
But the storm went far to the east, and the Almeisan got caught in it last weekend some 330 miles south of Bridgeport.
About 3 a.m. Sunday, a powerful wave slammed the boat, capsizing it briefly. The boat righted itself, but Tighe, an experienced navigator, felt his crew would be safer in an inflatable life raft.
He and Reidy were tethered to the Almeisan and preparing the life raft when another strong wave hit, knocking them loose from their harnesses and throwing them into the violent swells.
Reidy said the raft and the Almeisan disappeared from sight, but he and Tighe caught up to each other and connected their life jackets. Reidy figures that was about 4 a.m. Sunday. Within seven hours, Tighe was dead, an apparent drowning victim, but Reidy refused to let him go. He clung to his friend until early Monday, when the merchant tanker Sakura Express pulled him, then the captain's body, from the sea.
"We're taking it one step at a time," Anne Tighe said yesterday. "I am getting stronger, but it's going to be hard. Tom retired last year. I was going to retire soon, and we were looking forward to a different lifestyle."
She said her husband, who had a career in industrial sales, looked forward to sharing his love of sailing with his two grandchildren, Lauren and Michael, the children of their son, Thomas.
The younger Thomas Tighe said he learned countless lessons from his father — "all the little things that add up to who you are" — including to always be prepared.
Anne Tighe, who had sailed many times with her husband since they bought the Almeisan in 1981, said she always knew of the inherent dangers of the sea, but felt that if anyone was prepared for them, it was her husband.
Several veteran sailors and boaters at Captain's Cove Seaport in Bridgeport, where Tighe docked the Almeisan, agreed that Tighe perhaps was the most prepared and skilled captain they knew.
"We're realistic," she said of the Bermuda trips. "We always knew it was a difficult and risky undertaking. That's why Tom was so safety conscious. We're just thankful that no one else was hurt."
Sailboat survivor recalls harrowing experience
By TERRY CORCORAN
tcorcora@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 12, 2005)
WOODBRIDGE, Conn. — Lochlin Reidy and Thomas Tighe had been rolling on the violent swells of the Atlantic Ocean for about seven hours Sunday, tethered to one another, when Reidy looked over and realized that his longtime friend — his captain — was dead.
They had been thrown from Tighe's sailboat, the Almeisan, about 4 a.m. after encountering a brutal storm that had briefly capsized the 45-foot ketch. The two, with a crew of three others, were en route to Bermuda from Bridgeport, Conn., when the storm hit some 400 feet off the Virginia coast.
They spent the next 24 hours in the water together, even after Tighe's death. Throughout the ordeal, which included 20-foot seas and wind gusts of up to 48 knots, Reidy, 58, refused to let his friend go.
"I wanted to make sure he got home," Reidy said of the 65-year-old Patterson resident, his voice wavering, during an interview yesterday at his home near New Haven. "I figured the only way he could do that was with me, so we stayed together.
"I gave him his last rites as best I could — I hope I did it right — then I gave him a kiss for his family, and we continued on."
Reidy did his best over those hours to chase negative thoughts out of his head, riding out the waves — and the disappointment of hearing planes overhead but not being seen.
He focused on the positive — his wife, Sandra, his 13-year-old daughter Ashley's upcoming softball schedule and how he'd have to see the renovations his grown daughter, Denise, was doing to her home. But he said he also endured hallucinations that had him talking to the sea.
"It was just a will to live and to get Tom home," Reidy said. "I would catch myself thinking that I was going to miss this or that, but then I wouldn't let myself go down that road, so I tried to stay positive and think of a plan."
Reidy and Tighe met many years ago when a mutual acquaintance introduced them, knowing their common interest in sailing. Reidy grew up on Long Island and had been sailing since age 14. Tighe was considered the consummate captain, an accomplished navigator who had made the sail to Bermuda close to 50 times and taught seminars on making the trip. They became close friends and sailed to Bermuda 15 times over the years.
"Captain Tighe and I just hit it off," Reidy said. "He was very particular about who went on his trips, and I was honored to be with him."
The two, with a crew of two men and a woman whom Tighe had met while teaching his seminar, departed Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor about 11:30 p.m. May 3. Initial reports indicated a storm would be coming up the East Coast, so they went farther out to sea to avoid it and reach the Gulf Stream.
Winds started to pick up late Friday into early Saturday, so they charted a course farther east. The winds kept increasing as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning.
"We had the sails down, and we kept the motors running to keep the batteries charged," Reidy said.
Reidy was coming off a watch at 3 a.m. Sunday, he said, and was discussing the weather with Tighe and another crew member, Kathleen Gilchrist of Bloomfield, N.J., when a massive wave capsized the boat.
"The boat righted itself, which they're designed to do, and we found everyone. Kathy was tossed over the side, but she was harnessed in and we pulled her back," he said.
They realized that another wave like that would cause serious damage to the Almeisan, so Tighe decided to deploy an inflatable life raft.
Just as they did, the wind yanked the raft to the end of its line. They managed to pull it back, although it was somehow hooked on the Almeisan's stern. Reidy got in the raft as Tighe tried to free the line that was attached to the stern. Both men were tossed into the water, their harness lines broken, when another wave slammed the vessel.
Fortunately, Tighe already had sent out a distress call and activated an emergency-positioning device.
Reidy said he lost view of the life raft and the Almeisan within seconds as he rolled on the heaving seas. A few minutes later, he heard Tighe, and they swam to each other and hooked themselves together.
Reidy figures that Tighe died about 11 a.m. Sunday. In the hours that followed, he tried to stay focused and positive. As it got dark about 7 p.m., he held aloft a beacon, hoping it would be seen. About 2 a.m. Monday, a C-130 airplane flew low overhead and banked, but Reidy said he wasn't sure if it was a hallucination.
"There was a lot of phosphorous in the water, and every time a wave would break, the water would glow," he said.
When Reidy finally saw the deck lights of the merchant tanker Sakura Express about 2 a.m., he thought it was the phosphorous. A C-130 then started dropping flares to light up the night. After two harrowing hours when the waves would pull him away from the tanker, Reidy finally swam toward the ship and made vocal contact with those on deck.
They lowered a cargo net, and he had to cut Tighe loose before they pulled him up. Tighe's body was recovered 90 minutes later.
"A huge factor that played into his survival was the fact that the water was 70 degrees," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Newlin. "If it were much colder, the chance of survival would be greatly decreased. It was also good that he was wearing a life jacket."
The three others had been rescued from the Almeisan on Sunday night.
The Sakura Express arrived in Boston on Tuesday afternoon. Reidy walked off the boat, thanking every Coast Guard member he could.
"In my mind, when I shook their hands, I was thanking every person who assisted in the search. I'll never forget it," he said.
At one point, as the tanker was approaching him, Reidy said to the waves, "They're coming to get me. Now stop."
Three successive waves then slammed him.
"It was like the ocean didn't want me to get away, but I did."
Reidy, who had an emotional conversation with Tighe's wife yesterday and planned to visit her last night, said he hoped to sail again one day.
"But not today and not tomorrow," he said. "This has changed my whole outlook on what the ocean is about."
[ 05-13-2005, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson ) ]