TIL that 4 sailors survived at sea off the coast of New Zealand for 118 days after their trimaran the Rose-Noelle was upturned by a rogue wave.

The trimaran rose noelle. If the tale is to be believed the trimaran. Three days into its voyage at 6am on June 4 1989 a massive wave - so big it roared like a freight train - came out of the darkness and flipped the 65 tonne. This documentary tells the story of four men men who survived 119 days adrift at sea in an upturned trimaran.

The 41-foot-long trimaran Rose-Noëlle which had been lying beam-on to the seas was engulfed by an avalanche of white water pitched to 90 degrees then flipped upside down. Pictures of Highlight Rose Noelle and page previews of Playboys of The South Pacific. They cut holes in the hull collected rainwater and eventually caught and cooked fish.

John Glennies boat Rose Noelle capsized in the Pacific in June 1989 and washed up four months later on Great Barrier Island. Other Titles Being Viewed Right Now 92 m -. Sailing off the Wairarapa coast a storm developed with winds gusting between 50 and 60 knots subjecting the multi-hull yacht to massive waves.

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton New Zealand for Tonga with four men on board. Inside the yacht it was as if a house had been inverted in an earthquake. A huge storm unexpectedly rolled in and a freak wave which sounds kind of judgmental but is really just ocean lingo for a massive ship-crushing swell capsized the craft.

In 1989 four experienced sailors boarded the trimaran vessel Rose-Noëlle and set out on a leisure voyage off the coast of New Zealand. Rose Noelle skipper John Glennie sits among wreckage of his trimaran with some of the items recovered along the rugged south-eastern coast of Great Barrier Island. After a freak wave turned the boat upside down they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

Stranded 15 IMDb 63 1 h 26 min 2016 In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton New Zealand for Tonga with four men on board. Their story is compellingly told by Steven Callahan in the book Capsized. Four sailors survival at sea for 118 days in an upturned trimaran ranks as one of the worlds greatest survival stories--or one of its greatest hoaxes.