If the tale is to be believed the trimaran Rose-Noelle was flipped over on June 4 by a huge wave in a 60-knot gale three days out of New Zealands South Island.

Trimaran rose noelle. Director Mark Beesley mixes raw interviews and spare reenactment to convey the physical and emotional ordeal. Suddenly after three days of battling this ferocious storm off New Zealands east coast the worst fears held by Glennie and his three crew were about to be realised. In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton New Zealand bound for Tonga with four crew.

After a freak wave turned the boat upside down they drifted. A huge storm unexpectedly rolled in and a freak wave which sounds kind of judgmental but is really just ocean lingo for. Normally no one escapes capsizing down there.

Along with John Glennie Rick Hellreigel and Jim Nalepka Phil was shipwrecked when their yacht the Rose Noelle capsized three days after it set sail from Picton for Tonga. Back From the Dead - The Saga of the Rose Noelle - This documentary tells the story of four men men who survived 119 days adrift at sea in an upturned trimaran. We spent the next four months drifting in what.

After a freak wave turned the boat upside down they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island. In an almost incredible tale of survival the four crew of the shipwrecked trimaran RoseNoelle were found alive after 119 days at sea. It made land on Sept.

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton New Zealand for Tonga with four men on board. There virtually is no hope. 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.

My 40ft trimaran Rose-Noelle capsized in a never-never land where no hope of survival existed. In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton New Zealand for Tonga with four men on board. The Rose-Noelle had been flipped by a massive wave three days into a voyage to Tonga in June.