Hey Kluge….agree wholeheardedly with your comment that the profiteering guys in Subic, whom Daisy 120 has published, should be publicly named…..! But could Nowell write an article that was the truth, that had the correct facts? That would be a stark contrast to the fallacious piece of nonsensical prose that led to this thread in the first place?
In case you haven’t been brought up to speed about Nowell, the ‘opportunistic wally’, he published his maligning piece of fallacy on the same day that Stu returned to HK off the ‘Mill Feet’…. without ever doing any credible research, without ever talking to Stu to find out the facts, or John for that matter…nor made any attempt to do so,…nor without ever contacting the Ops team supporting the Challenge, that could have given him the facts.
Which is why Mr Knowall’s article is full of wrong dates, wrong times, wrong info and wrong assumptions especially re John Young, the Skipper of Sailabout, which the ignorant and less intelligent on this site have bought into ‘Lock, Stock and Barrel’….US Marine and Canuckster have disturbingly done so…! (they are supposedly meant to be intelligent pilots! …..apparently and unfortunately an oxymoron with regards to them!)
FACT: It was John Young’s decision as Skipper to take Sailabout out to look for Sunny….. Stu was just the charterer, ….if you believed Mr Knowall’s article you’d swear that Stu must have had a gun to the Skipper’s head…..It was John Young’s responsibility to say no to the charter if he thought there was danger! Sailabout was his home. He knew Subic. He had lived around the Philippines for 6 years. He accepted the charter.
FICTION….If you believed US Marine in his childish rantings on his last posting you would believe that it was a calm summer’s day/night out there when Stu called the MAYDAY….. really!……..We on the other end of the sat phone, and who talked to all the crew afterwards, knew differently…..as Stu has stated in his personal account, on the subic2hebechallenge.com web-site
FACT …. Stu and 3 others were there. Mr Knowall was not! Canuckster was not! US Marine was not (although I am sure if he had been he would have been pissing himself in the corner which is what he accuses Stu of doing……obviously we are privvy to US Marine’s own personal history about himself here!) ….. And btw, … John Young was extremely grateful to be alive as he told the Ops crew when he got back to HK, …as were the other 3!
FACT…..Mr Knowall, demonstrated severe lack of judgement in writing that article, like Canuckster/US Marine, for believing it.
And why did GN write his bit of fallacy? Some say it was born from pure ignorance, some say it was born from his ‘wannabee’ mentality,……Most say it was born from his arrogance and ego, his need to be the first one to get the story out on his web-site…..to hell with the facts, truth, fair reporting and talking to Stu, or the others who were there and lived it all!, …..As we now know MR Knowall would make it up and dramatise it as he wrote it! In fact, in his mind he must have thought that the more sensational and damning the article (esp using the bold print to state his own ignorant and unfounded opinions!), the more the reader’s would hit his web-site, the more profit he would make!
Kluge, an interesting idea you propose….The irony is fantastic…..A Profiteer like Nowell, writes a story about the Sunny Profiteers in Subic. What a Guy ……
And as for US Marine/Canuckster…...Move on! Do what you can to make a positive mark on the world rather than all your negative and cynical ****e…..Do what you can to bring a smile to others’ faces…….You are only here on borrowed time…….
