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Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 07-07-2020, 03:54 PM
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Posted By Rover Crew
Hello Roy, According to my records from the...

Hello Roy,
According to my records from the search for him, Eddie arrived in Hout Bay around the end of January 2012. Certainly he was in Hout Bay during the first week of February of that year....
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 07-07-2020, 02:24 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thank you Roy for uploading the photos. I...

Thank you Roy for uploading the photos.
I shall alert the others of 'the scout gang' that they are there, so that they can view them too.
My husband and I spent a few days with Eddie when he was...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 07-05-2020, 04:42 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thank you Roy, for contacting this thread, and...

Thank you Roy, for contacting this thread, and trying to put your photos on it.. and thank you Auzzee, for your assistance there!
Sadly it is clearly, more than obvious that Eddie was lost at sea...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 02-04-2014, 03:17 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
TO ALL FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES & SAILING...

TO ALL FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES & SAILING COMPANIONS
OF EDWARD (EDDIE) ANKER,
OF 'THE SPIRIT OF REMA'

A Memorial Fund has now been set up for Edward (Eddie) Anker.
It is known as the...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 01-31-2014, 03:58 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thank you 'moetsailing' for you thoughts and...

Thank you 'moetsailing' for you thoughts and words about Ed.
Yes he is missed by all of us, and I am sure that he has been an inspiration to many. I certainly have been contacted by many people who...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 12-25-2013, 02:28 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Ed. RIP ...........?

Tomorrow will mark a year since Ed set sail from Hout Bay, South Africa.
He has now been officially registered as 'missing'.
We wil be raising a glass to his memory, along with a any number of his...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 11-22-2013, 01:50 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Exactly!! and this is what we have to say about...

Exactly!! and this is what we have to say about Ed - if he has gone, and it would appear that he has, he went doing just what he loved and wanted to do. It was his ambition to circumnavigate, solo...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 10-04-2013, 02:15 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thank you, Anthony & Lynn for those kind words...

Thank you, Anthony & Lynn for those kind words about Eddie. 'Unassuming' just about sums him up, and it is difficult to accept that we may have lost him.
We all hope against hope that he will...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 09-29-2013, 02:02 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
9 months

So here we are, just over 9mnths since Ed left Hout Bay. We had been pinning our hopes on the supply vessel Marion Dufresne, recently operating in the waters around the islands where we hoped that Ed...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 07-26-2013, 05:56 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
7 months

7 months today since Ed left Hout Bay, and we are still continuing with our 'search'.
We have had some information passed to us, from someone who helped Ed prepare to leave, - and I post it here in...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 07-18-2013, 01:01 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thank you seumasm for that information, which may...

Thank you seumasm for that information, which may prove useful in our searches.
We know that Ed had charts on a lap top,, but that he refused the 'GPS driver' and 'Chart plotter', saying that he...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-30-2013, 03:00 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Further reply from the 'technical department' -...

Further reply from the 'technical department' - we now believe that we can remember Eddie having the solar panel, (small) and a means of generating some power from the wind, via a 'windmill' on the...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-29-2013, 01:16 PM
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Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Further reply - with thoughts from my more...

Further reply - with thoughts from my more technical husband.. the VHF, GPS and computers all require electric (?).. and as far as my 'man' can recall, Eddie only has one small solar panel to produce...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-29-2013, 01:10 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thanks John.. yes, we are still hoping that Eddie...

Thanks John.. yes, we are still hoping that Eddie has survived whatever has been 'thrown' at him.
We were under the impression that he didn't have VHF or GPS of any sort, certainly my husband and I...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-26-2013, 02:50 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Six months today

It is 6 months today since Eddie left Hout Bay, and since anyone has heard from him.
I have ascertained, today, through contact with Australian Customs that he has NOT 'entered' Australia, and so we...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-20-2013, 01:37 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Hi Neale, I will send you a PM via this webpage...

Hi Neale,
I will send you a PM via this webpage with some contact details. We still have no news I'm afraid.
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 06-05-2013, 01:04 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Update 5th June 2013

We have now passed the 5 month mark, since anyone has had any communication from Eddie.
Since the last update, more messages have been posted on other webpages, (I'm sure that some of you have come...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 05-13-2013, 01:38 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Update 13 May 2013

Update from Eddies friends in UK/Spain
My enquiries with the authorities responsible for the Islands St Paul & Amsterdam have confirmed that Eddie/Spirit of Rema have not been seen at the islands,...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 05-03-2013, 04:44 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Update

Hi all
I've managed to confirm that Eddie left the Hout Bay Yacht Club/Marina, South Africa on 26th December 2012. I guess, therefore, that the email that we received after that date was sent from...
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 05-01-2013, 03:21 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Thanks John, that may be an idea, I will put it...

Thanks John, that may be an idea, I will put it to the rest of 'the gang' to see what they think.
Will keep in touch, and hope that he turns up somewhere.
cheers for now.
Forum: Overdue & Distress Reports 04-30-2013, 03:50 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 26,731
Posted By Rover Crew
Update - April 30th 2013

This update from the group of Eddies longstanding friends, who are concerned for his whereabouts:-
Eddie left South Africa, (Hout Bay) mid January 2013. We had communication from him after...
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