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They Almost Went Down With the Ship : Rescue: Southland fishermen lost their boat in Hurricane Darby, but escaped with their lives.

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The only thing worse than facing a hurricane on land would be to meet one, as five Southland fishermen did, in a 65-foot boat at sea.

“Absolutely,” said Bill Holekamp, who lost his new boat, Oasis, but was thankful to escape with his life.

One engine gone. Pumps unable to keep up with the water pouring into the boat. Sea anchor ineffective. Life rafts useless. Try to inflate them in 100-knot winds and they would blow away like balloons.

Mike Thomas recalled jolts of electricity coursing through the knee-deep water in the cabin.

Ed Ragone figured that “if we didn’t drown, we’d be facing the sharks in the morning.”

Pick your death. Rick Macklin, resigned to it, said: “I was just hoping it wouldn’t be painful.”

Otherwise, Hal Neibling said, it was a wonderful fishing trip.

All except Ragone, a self-described “novice fisherman,” are longtime fishing buddies in their 40s. They met the Oasis at Manzanillo, Mexico, after its trip through the Panama Canal, fresh from the Donzi boatyard in Florida. Along with skipper Lance Ekberg and first mate Jay Halford of Huntington Beach, they rode its maiden voyage smack into Hurricane Darby at the Socorro and San Benedicto Islands, 378 miles off the coast of Mexico in July--the start of the hurricane season.

“We went down there knowing that,” Macklin said. “When we originally planned it, it was going to be earlier. But we thought we had the communications to be knowledgeable about the situation. We thought we had the speed to outrun it.”

Also, when they arrived at the islands, they noticed a Mexican naval vessel had been secured for heavy weather with fore and aft anchors and four cables strung to rocks ashore.

“But when we were boarded (for a routine check) they professed to have no knowledge of any bad weather approaching,” Neibling said.

Even on the night of July 4, before Darby arrived, Holekamp said: “The weather report we had indicated a storm 400 miles south moving at eight knots. But by dawn’s early light we were involved with the lead squall line of the storm.”

Given more warning, they would have headed for Cabo San Lucas about 200 miles north.

“But you can’t make more than 10 or 12 knots in those conditions,” Holekamp said.

So when Darby, moving at 19-22 knots, caught them at the islands, there was no place to run, no place to hide. They tried the lee side of San Benedicto until a monster wave wiped out one engine and most of their electronics, causing loss of headway and control and taking them back out to sea, where they fought a 30-hour battle of survival until rescued by a banana boat.

Before the hurricane, Macklin, who lives in Huntington Harbour and owns some auto-parts stores, shot videotape showing a bountiful catch of marlin, wahoo and tuna. “Two days of fabulous fishing,” Ragone said. “Stuff that would take two months to catch in our local waters.”

Then the tape shows heavy seas, and someone is heard on the audio saying: “Eight-five knots of wind here. We’re driving the boat with swim masks on, and we’re just having a grand old time.”

The next segment shows them sitting around the salon in life jackets, appearing apprehensive. The final segment was shot by a crewman on the banana boat as they climbed aboard, like men who had cheated fate.

Each man deals with fear in his own way. Neibling, a Long Beach oral surgeon, wrote a straightforward account for the Tuna Club newsletter, but Macklin said: “I don’t think he really illustrated how scared everybody was. We all thought we were going to die.”

None of the five denied he was scared--”terrified,” in fact, several said--but all agree that nobody panicked. Thomas said all were heroes, especially Ekberg and Halford, “to stay down in the bilge and work on the engines as long as they did. For me, it was really frightening to get down there and see all that water, and water pouring in. I could imagine being stuck down there and having a wave inundate the boat.”

Added Thomas: “Those guys stayed down there and kept the boat going and rigged extra bilge pumps and cannibalized hoses from other places and rigged up stuff so it would drain out. That was heroic. A lot of people might just have given up.”

Despite the heavy pitching and rolling, Ekberg and Halford managed to restart the starboard engine so the boat could be pointed into the wind back toward San Benedicto. But at about 11 o’clock in the black of night, another huge wave hit broadside, smashing through the windows of the salon and causing the group’s most serious injury.

Ragone was standing on the bridge, next to Holekamp at the helm. He had time to yell “Oh, . . . ,” before the wave hit, knocking him into Holekamp. The blow caused Holekamp to throw the helm into the wind, perhaps averting a rollover.

Thomas, also of Huntington Harbour, is an emergency room physician at Whittier Christian Hospital.

“I saw it coming toward me,” he said. “It was real tubular, where the top kind of curls to form a tube. That’s what that wave was like when it burst through the windows. The leading edge was full of glass. It filled the salon with two or three feet of water and shorted out the control panel.”

Thomas’ left forearm was gashed, but he wasn’t concerned about that.

“We had two big 30-kilowatt generators pumping juice into the control panel,” he said. “The couches were thrown in front of the door, and all the lights went out. There were flashes of electricity going through the room, kind of like ‘Star Wars.’ I’d touch a piece of paneling or the counter top and the wood would give me a jolt. Each step I took I could feel something zapping me.”

But there was one worry worse than those of drowning, electrocution or bleeding to death.

“I think the worst fear was that we were going down,” Thomas said.

And that meant the same unspoken fear to all: sharks.

Ragone, a Lake Forest resident who owns a printing business, said: “The night before we had been out there playing with the sharks with the lights on. We’d put meat on the ends of ropes and dangle it for them.”

Curious, he threw one an empty beer can. It ate it.

“That area’s just thick with sharks,” Thomas said. “Every time we tried to fish with live bait we’d get a shark instead of a tuna. And some of our tuna, a shark would take a big hunk out of it before we’d get it up to the boat. I knew if I went in the water they’d be on me real quick, so I was not anxious to abandon the boat.”

Macklin said: “At that point, we were trying to figure out how to get those life rafts open.”

In those winds, the self-inflating rafts probably would have been as useful as the Jet Skis and the Boston Whaler that had been ripped off the foredeck by waves.

Macklin reflected, “My dad drowned in a boating accident. He was an explorer and went over a waterfall in Venezuela. I was thinking, ‘This is too weird.’

“I guess you can say you get so scared you fear for death, and then you accept it and you aren’t scared. That’s sort of how I felt.”

Neibling wrapped Thomas’ arm in a T-shirt until it could be treated.

Mayday calls were being broadcast every two minutes, with no response. They also heard Maydays from San Pedro commercial fisherman Salvatore Russo some distance away. Russo and his nine-man crew survived on a life raft, but also lost their boat.

Ragone had a vague recollection of an incident in June of 1974 when Orange County Supervisor Ronald Caspers, his two sons and seven others were lost on a 63-foot boat caught in a storm in the same area. No trace was found.

Ragone said: “We had a pact that if anybody went over, we’d go back and try to find them.”

A noble thought, but . . . “in reality, that would have been impossible,” Ragone said.

“Suddenly, when it looked bleakest,” Neibling said, “a Coast Guard C-130 (land-based search-and-rescue plane) was raised . . . only 50 miles away.”

Later, Thomas said: “When that C-130 flew over in the middle of the night and we could see the lights on it, that was an emotional lift, because we did feel kind of isolated.”

Neibling sewed up Thomas’ arm with 30 stitches. At 11:30 the next morning another C-130 dropped a pump by parachute, but the chute became tangled in the boat’s propellers. Halford dived into the turbulence to try to free them, without success--and they couldn’t get the pump to run, either.

The plane radioed that the ship Chiquita Roma was seven miles away. But because the captain was concerned about inshore rocks, the Oasis, with its limited power, had to limp back out to sea to meet it.

The ship’s captain, Rick Bautista, aligned his boat broadside to the wind to provide a lee side for boarding and lowered two ladders and a cargo net. But on the first pass the crippled Oasis crashed into the steel side of the rolling ship with no one managing to get off.

On the next pass they attached fore and aft lines, but the Oasis was still rising and falling 20 feet in the waves. Holekamp, a Long Beach resident, was nearly crushed between his boat and the ship.

But all seven transferred safely, and the Oasis was abandoned and set adrift in the waning storm. The Chiquita Roma continued its voyage to Port Hueneme, where the fishermen disembarked two days later.

“The boat was sinking as we left it,” Holekamp said Thursday. “I don’t have any information otherwise.”

Ragone said the Coast Guard told him their chances of surviving those conditions in that size boat were “less than 1%.”

Holekamp plans to order another just like it.

“That boat saved our lives,” he said.

The adventure has not discouraged any of the five from going back to sea. Macklin went white-water rafting a week later--and broke his hand. Thomas says his injured arm improved his golf game “because now I can’t swing as hard.”

Thomas said: “I usually don’t remember dreams, but for the first couple days I dreamt about suffocating . . . getting caught in a cave-in and not being able to get out. For a couple days I kept imagining that wave breaking through the window. I could still hear the noise of it.”

When he went fishing near Santa Catalina Island a week ago, he had to dive under the boat when a fishing line got tangled in his prop.

“There were fish around, including a big hammerhead. In the past it didn’t bother me much, but I did get real antsy. I was peeking around, looking for a shark to show up.”

Holekamp said he watched TV reports of Hurricane Andrew this week with a fresh perspective.

“You realize that with all these things we’ve built and all we know, Mother Nature’s still in charge. The forces of a hurricane are unbelievable. It’s a terrifying experience.

“But if you can keep a level head, you can survive.”

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Retired British couple stranded in Bahamas after yacht struck by lightning

A retired British couple is stranded in the Bahamas after the yacht they spent their life savings on was hit by lightning.

Mike and Helen Beech were moored off a small island near George Town when a lightning bolt hit the mast of their £50,000 boat with an “almighty bang” at 6.30pm on March 23 during an electrical storm.

The strike destroyed all of its electrical equipment, which will cost £36,000 to repair and must be fixed by the start of hurricane season in June.

The pensioners’ insurance is expected to cover the majority of the bill but will leave them to pay £6,000 out of their own pockets, which they say they cannot afford.

The yacht could even be written off completely, which would ruin the Suffolk couple’s dream to sail around the world and visit their son Charlie, 29, in New Zealand.

Mr Beech, a 63-year-old retired truck driver, said: “It’s really scary at the moment because all the other boats are racing back to the US to get out of the hurricane and tropical storm belt and we’re stuck here. 

“I have never seen an electrical storm like it but we’re alive because I’m not sure what would have happened if we had been on deck.”

The Beeches bought Mistral Dancer, their 38ft yacht, from Hamble-le-Rice in Hampshire for about £50,000 in July 2018.

They crossed the Atlantic in 2022 and have spent the last year island-hopping in the Caribbean.

But disaster struck in March when they were cooking dinner while moored off the small Bahamian island of Crab Cay, which they were preparing to leave to set sail for Colombia via Jamaica.

The bolt was captured on camera by other sailors who were more than 1,000 ft away.

“At first I thought someone had crashed into the side of us or something,” Mr Beech said. “With it was this massive flash of white and blue light that just lit the inside of the boat up.

“It was like a flashbulb but 100 times brighter and with blue light added to it. Obviously, it’s over and done with by the time you hear it. There’s no time to panic.”

The GPS system, autopilot, depth sounder, speed log, and close-hauled gauge have all been destroyed, as well as the alternator and electrical relays.

“The bill from the surveyor is horrendous,” Mr Beech said. “He reckons it’s about 20,000 dollars (£15,900) in parts and about 25,000 dollars to fly somebody out here with the relevant knowledge.

“I had no idea that it would be so expensive. That’s almost what we paid for the boat, which was all our savings and a chunk of Helen’s [NHS midwife] pension.”

A GoFundMe raising money for their insurance excess and additional costs of renewing their Bahamas visas and cruising permit received £2,500 on Thursday night.

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Industry mourns loss of Viking Yachts founder Robert Healey, Sr.

Robert T. Healey Sr., the co-founder of the Viking Yacht Company who helped build the company into an industry leader and led the fight that repealed the Federal Luxury Tax on yachts in the early 1990s, passed away last week at the age of 92.

“My father was a true leader, and his vision will always guide us,” said his son, Robert Healey Jr. “He believed that the people around him – his family, friends and employees – lifted him to success and it was his obligation to leave the world a better place.”

Bob Healey Sr. and his brother Bill established Viking Yachts in 1964, and the company went on to become the largest manufacturer of sport fishing yachts in the world. But that success may have never been achieved without the determination and perseverance of Bob Healey. When a federal 10% luxury tax was imposed on yachts in 1991, thousands of people were laid off and hundreds of companies went out of business. Viking nearly went bankrupt, closed a plant in Florida and laid off all but 65 of its 1,500 boatbuilders.

Bob was instrumental in organizing a national, grass-roots campaign to fight the tax. He took the industry lead, organizing busloads of out-of-work boatbuilders to converge on Capitol Hill for demonstrations, and setting fire to a boat on a barge in Narragansett Bay as a highly effective symbol of protest. The tax was repealed 20 months later in 1993.

“My uncle’s efforts to repeal the Federal Luxury Tax on yachts will never be forgotten,” said Bill’s son and Viking Yachts President and CEO Pat Healey. “He saved not only Viking but the entire marine industry. He was the catalyst and leader, and he wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. He was a brilliant lawyer and savvy businessman who was able to convince the politicians in Washington that this was very much a jobs issue. It was about good hardworking people losing their ability to provide for their families.

Bob’s 11th-hour lobbying efforts with Congressman Bill Hughes, who represented N.J.’s Second District, helped secure the votes needed to repeal the Luxury Tax in 1993. “It was a great victory for our family-owned-and-operated boatbuilding company, the people of New Jersey and everyone in the marine industry,” said Pat.

With Bill’s help, Bob privately funded the company out of his own savings, allowing Viking to tool up new models. The company came out of the gate running when the tax was finally repealed – and they never looked back.

Bob graduated from Camden Catholic High School, attended St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, graduating with a B.S. in Political Science, and earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He practiced law in Camden County, N.J., for 25 years before retiring as a senior partner in the firm of Healey, Mueller and Tyler to devote himself full time to business interests.

In the 1950s, his brother Bill joined Bob in the real-estate development business. Among other projects, the two brothers acquired and developed the Bass River Marina in New Gretna, N.J. In 1964 a small, local builder of wooden boats, Peterson-Viking, was having financial trouble, and the brothers agreed to buy the company, changed the name to Viking Yachts, and relocated the business to their property adjoining the marina. The boatbuilding business soon occupied much of their time, so the brothers sold the marina and concentrated on building yachts. Bob was the company lawyer, moneyman and Chief Executive while his brother built the boats.

Committed to their mantra to build a better boat every day, Bill and Bob pushed Viking to the pinnacle of their industry with more than 5,000 boats delivered. They successfully steered the company through the ups and downs of economic cycles. “My father always said, ‘We’ve worked hard to get to the top of the mountain, we’re enjoying the view and we’re not going to give it up,’ ” remembers Bob Jr., currently the Co-Chairman of the Viking Group, which manages Viking Yachts, Viking Investments, Viking Associates, Viking Residential and Viking Developers.

As Viking’s Chairman of the Board for 57 years, Bob Healey Sr. diversified their financial interests into multi-family, industrial and commercial real estate, oil and gas exploration and development, and the financial management of the Healey family assets.

Together, Bill and Bob Healey achieved many milestones. In 1996, they founded the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA), a non-profit organization formed in 1996 to promote sustainable fisheries and a healthy marine environment. Viking has contributed well over $1 million to the RFA. In that same year, the brothers established Viking Sport Cruisers, a company that has been highly successful distributing British-built, high end cruising yachts, built to Viking’s specifications, through its dealer network in North America. Bob, Bill and Pat received the Ernst & Young 1998 New Jersey Manufacturing Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Fifteen years later, the family would earn a second award from Ernst & Young.

Ironically, the Healeys bought back Bass River Marina in 2002 and reopened it as the Viking Yachting Center. They were inducted in 2003 into the National Marine Manufacturers Association Hall of Fame for their outstanding contributions to the marine industry.

In honor of their service and commitment to the marine industry for more than a half a century, Bill and Bob were honored with the 2019 IBI-METSTRADE Boat Builder Lifetime Achievement Award, which was accepted by Bob Jr.

Bob received many more awards for his achievements, including induction into the NJ Marine Trade Association Hall of Fame and the Rowan University Milestone Award. Bob also channeled his financial success into philanthropic interests, which included building schools in impoverished areas of Mexico, and providing housing, medical assistance, education, food and clean water to the people of war-torn Sierra Leone through the Healey International Relief Foundation. “My father was a good man with a deep faith and commitment to service,” said Bob Jr., who recently announced his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s 3rd District. “No person or mission was ever a lost cause to him. He saw the potential in everyone and believed that our true worth and value in life is in our contributions to others.”

A devout Catholic and product of Catholic school education, Bob brought his business skills to the challenges facing Catholic schools in the U.S. and formed the Healey Education Foundation and the Catholic Partnership Schools in Camden.

With his wife Ellen, Bob founded the Gleneayre Equestrian Program for at-risk youth. The program uses the powerful connection between horses and people to support learning, growth and healing.

For his philanthropic efforts, Bob received the Lewis Katz Excellence in Education Award, the Beacon of Light Award, the Catholic Charities Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio Award for Leadership, an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Scranton University and the Shield of Loyola Award from St. Joseph’s University.

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It's been 25 years since Hurricane Darby gave a Southern California fishing party one memorable 4th of July holiday off Isla Socorro and Isla San Benedicto, 200 miles South of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Their Roscioli Donzi 65 sure helped them win some time, but late skipper Lance Ekberg and his first mate Jay Halford from Huntington Beach sure did their absolute best too. The Coast Guard coordinated for a successful rescue by an honorable merchant marine Captain and they were able to all make it home to loved ones and share the story. That was not the case in 1974 when 10 California fellows lost their lives in the same waters in a 63 footer and vanished without a trace. Watch the video and read the article in Los Angels Times. LA Times article: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-...urricane-darby Roscioli Donzi 65 sister ship:

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Fascinating video, thank you for posting it. Wonder if the boat went under?

Originally Posted by Offset Fascinating video, thank you for posting it. Wonder if the boat went under? Oh yes, she was leaking like a sieve. Bill Holekamp, the owner, ordered himself another Donzi 65 Sportfisher right off the bat. He, the captain and all on board were very impressed by her sea-worthiness and credit the quality of her design and construction as two of the factors that saved their souls.

Lars, what in the world made you remember that now--did someone re-publish the story? (I recall reading about it after it happened, in Boating magazine I think.)

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I haven't seen this particular video but I remember seeing on tv one night a while after it happened on "Amazing Videos' , or something like that title. I seem to recall the owner saying that the licks they took were so brutal that even the heads (toilets) were shattered despite never coming loose from their mounts. He recalled , in amazement , that the etched glass bulkhead window from the c0ckpit into the salon was completely intact without even a stress crack when on any other boat the entire thing would have long shattered from the flexing between the hull and deck . I went through a Z65 in '93 at the Miami show with Bob Roscioli and I was amazed at the overbuilt way he did everything . If another boat had 1" stuff he had 2" and so on . They are incredible .

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Originally Posted by Ghost Lars, what in the world made you remember that now--did someone re-publish the story? (I recall reading about it after it happened, in Boating magazine I think.) The current Hurricane season and the constant discussions among boaters here in Southern California where a great majority totally underestimate how treacherous the ocean is in the late afternoon out here. I was on a 3 week vacation in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico a few months before this accident and never heard of it in the local news back in Los Angeles. However I also read about it a year later in Yachting Magazine, 1993 July issue and was blown away by how lucky these guys were to have survived. A few days ago I was reading about the situation in Houston and I remembered this old boating accident. Googled Donzi, hurricane and Socorro and the TV footage popped up on YouTube. I thought to myself, got to stick this up on our local fishing Forum here on the Pacific coast and then stuck it up on Donzi.net too out of habit with the hope that maybe it will make a few more boaters prepare a little bit extra for stuff that is hard to prepare for. With common sense, some seamanship and a well built boat, like in this case, there is at least a fair chance to make it back to a safe harbor. P.S. Did rent a little Hobie sailing cat while staying at the Las Hadas Hotel for a few days, but unfortunately didn't spot Bo Derek. Haven't been back, but hope to take my wife one of these days. The Las Hadas Hotel is one truly remarkable destination and that goes for the whole state of Colima. D.S. Article: https://books.google.com/books?id=xL...ricane&f=false Check out the unique Las Hadas Hotel: https://www.lasbrisashotels.com.mx/e...nillo/gallery/

Originally Posted by lars It's been 25 years since Hurricane Darby gave a Southern California fishing party one memorable 4th of July holiday off Isla Socorro and Isla San Benedicto, 200 miles South of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Their Roscioli Donzi 65 sure helped them win some time, but late skipper Lance Ekberg and his first mate Jay Halford from Huntington Beach sure did their absolute best too. The Coast Guard coordinated for a successful rescue by an honorable merchant marine Captain and they were able to all make it home to loved ones and share the story. That was not the case in 1974 when 10 California fellows lost their lives in the same waters in a 63 footer and vanished without a trace. Watch the video. Good to hear from you Lars and thanks for posting this. Amazing stuff! You always find the cool stuff.

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Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks for the throwback--I enjoyed hearing about it again and as you say, the lessons are timeless.

Originally Posted by Greg Guimond Good to hear from you Lars and thanks for posting this. Amazing stuff! You always find the cool stuff. Originally Posted by Ghost Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks for the throwback--I enjoyed hearing about it again and as you say, the lessons are timeless. Good to hear from You Guys too. Wish You only the best. Cheers, Lars.

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Holekamp Family Foundation, The William R. Orthwein Jr. and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Each Gift $2 Million to Muny Capital Improvements

Nov 12, 2018

The Muny announced today that long-time Muny Partners Bill and Kerry Holekamp and The Orthwein Foundation have each pledged $2 million towards The Muny’s Second Century Capital Campaign. In recognition of these gifts, The Muny will name its costume shop for The Holekamp Family Foundation and the administrative board room for The Orthwein Foundation.

This fundraising effort will help fund major capital improvements, including a complete rebuild of the Muny stage, provide for the support, maintenance and upkeep of the aging 11.5-acre campus, and grow the theatre’s endowment.

Both foundations have an illustrious history in philanthropic support of The Muny. Bill Holekamp, a Muny board member since 2004, and his wife Kerry have been Muny Partners since 2005, and The Orthwein Foundation since 1959.

“Our children grew up going to The Muny – it is a part of our family tradition,” said Bill and Kerry Holekamp. “With this gift, our family is humbled to help give the same opportunities for other generations to create wonderful memories all their own.”

“The Muny holds a very special place in this community, not only as a cultural institution, but also as an institution that brings the community together and generates great pride for the region,” said The Orthwein Foundation. “After an extremely successful first 100 years, it is all the more important that The Muny achieve even greater success in its Second Century.”

“To receive these gifts from two foundations that represent these families is uniquely special,” said Muny President and CEO Denny Reagan. “Their continued support not only recognizes how much The Muny means to these great families, but also their investment in making sure future generations can continue to enjoy this great tradition.”

To give, or for more information regarding The Muny’s Second Century Capital Campaign, please visit muny.org/secondcentury

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Supercar blondie's sbx cars will auction rare luxury vehicles—like a flying glass yacht.

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Alex Hirschi. aka Superblondie, in front a Tesla Cybertruck. A Cybertruck will be the first vehicle ... [+] listed by her new auction venture, SBX.

Alex Hirschi is an internet and social media phenom, with millions of fans clicking billions of likes on her videos of hyper-exotic cars and other trappings of the super wealthy. She goes on ride-alongs with Paris Hilton, F1 icon Lewis Hamilton, boxing champ and Philippines politico Manny Pacquiao, actor/motorhead Vin Diesel, even composer Hans Zimmer—all of whom would likely confide they’re big fans of her . “Alex Hirschi” doesn’t ring a bell? She’s much better known as Supercar Blondie .

Alex Hirschi started doing videos in 2017 and now has over 100 million followers worldwide.

Now, after years of talking about and showing off the exotic, unusual and sometimes plain bizarre (but inevitably amazing) cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, homes, submarines, aircraft and more, Hirschi is starting a new venture: Selling them at auction.

Hirschi, along with husband and partner Nik Hirschi, are launching SBX Cars, an auction and sales platform that will leverage Supercar Blondie’s immense popularity to sell exotic vehicles and such to the (wealthy) general public. Alex and Nik Hirschi took time recently to talk with me about their new venture, and about Supercar Blondie’s history and rise to internet superstardom.

Hirschi with the Hyperion XP-1 prototype that will go to auction.

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Naturally, SBX Cars will get an immediate audience from Hirschi’s massive online presence, which stretches across all major social media platforms but started innocently in 2017 when she was a radio personality in Dubai. “I had a personal Instagram account just like anyone else,” Hirschi said. “And I just always loved cars and I was a journalist. I had like 200 friends or whatever and I just started uploading videos of my experience driving these incredible cars for the first time, and I think the angle we came from was if your mum or your best friend got a cool car, what would excite them the most? It's not the technical specs and the engine and all of that. It's how the door might open, the lights, the gadgets. Everyday things that people get excited about when they buy a new car or sit in a new car.”

The “cool-to-me” approach, such as in the video below, was a refreshing and popular departure from the typically jargon-heavy, motorhead boys club that surrounds exotic cars, and Hirschi said many of her initial fans and followers were female car enthusiasts.

Just a year after posting her first videos, Hirschi left the radio business to pursue online stardom with support from her husband Nik Hirschi. Today, she counts over 18 million subscribers on YouTube, 16 million on Instagram, 56 million on Facebook and millions more on other channels.

Hirschi says the SBX Cars venture will not be limited to motor vehicles. One upcoming auction will offer boatmaker Tyde's first hydrofoiling electric glass yacht, call The Icon, that included BMW in the design and build phase. She pilots the unusual craft in the video below.

“This is going to be the only digital auction platform that just focuses on the super rare and exclusive vehicles. So we are mainly focused on cars,” Hirschi told me. “However, with that said, if there's something super unique, we're gonna be having them on the site as well.” Hirschi said that could even include a large, functional anime-type robot from Japan.

Hirschi says that differentiation from established high-end auction houses like Sotheby’s, Bonhams and others is an avenue that SBX Cars will work to exploit. She said many of the best-known auction houses often reserve their most premium offerings for limited participation auctions away from the public, but SBX Cars will be much more transparent - and timely. As an online-only venture, Hirschi said sellers wanting to post vehicles for auction won’t have to wait for auction festivals like the Pebble Beach Concours or other annual events. “I feel like there's no one doing what we're about to do,” she said.

The first vehicle on auction for the new SBX Cars platform? The controversial Tesla Cybertruck, Elon Musk’s wedge of stainless steel that’s been both derided as a 1980’s sci-fi B-movie prop and also heralded as a bold vision of automotive design and the infusion of innovation trucks have needed for decades. As of the first hours of the 14-day auction, bidding was at $50,000.

After that, the company says upcoming auctions will include a one-of-three Lamborghini Veneno Coupe, Mercedes/AMG One and the hydrogen-powered Hyperion XP-1 prototype . A company spokesman says SBX Cars has over $100 million in vehicles already lined up for auction on the platform.

The SBX Cars venture will also hopefully dial back some of the time pressure on Hirschi, who said she was working 16-hours days and has posted over 1,000 videos. She now has a small team of presenters that travel the world in her stead to showcase the exotic, strange and unusual in the world of the super-wealthy wheels and luxury.

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Holekamp Family Foundation, The William R. Orthwein Jr. And Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Each Gift $2 Million To Muny Capital Improvements

The Muny announced today that long-time Muny Partners Bill and Kerry Holekamp and The Orthwein Foundation have each pledged $2 million towards The Muny's Second Century Capital Campaign. In recognition of these gifts, The Muny will name its costume shop for The Holekamp Family Foundation and the administrative board room for The Orthwein Foundation.

This fundraising effort will help fund major capital improvements, including a complete rebuild of the Muny stage, provide for the support, maintenance and upkeep of the aging 11.5-acre campus, and grow the theatre's endowment.

Both foundations have an illustrious history in philanthropic support of The Muny. Bill Holekamp, a Muny board member since 2004, and his wife Kerry have been Muny Partners since 2005, and The Orthwein Foundation since 1959.

"Our children grew up going to The Muny - it is a part of our family tradition," said Bill and Kerry Holekamp. "With this gift, our family is humbled to help give the same opportunities for other generations to create wonderful memories all their own."

"The Muny holds a very special place in this community, not only as a cultural institution, but also as an institution that brings the community together and generates great pride for the region," said The Orthwein Foundation. "After an extremely successful first 100 years, it is all the more important that The Muny achieve even greater success in its Second Century."

"To receive these gifts from two foundations that represent these families is uniquely special," said Muny President and CEO Denny Reagan . "Their continued support not only recognizes how much The Muny means to these great families, but also their investment in making sure future generations can continue to enjoy this great tradition."

To give, or for more information regarding The Muny's Second Century Capital Campaign, please visit muny.org/secondcentury .

The Muny's mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theatre, accessible to all, while continuing its remarkable tradition in Forest Park. As the nation's largest outdoor musical theatre, we produce seven world-class musicals each year and welcome over 400,000 theatregoers over our nine-week season. Now celebrating 101 seasons in St. Louis, The Muny remains one of the premier institutions in musical theatre.

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I live on a sailboat — we shower in the rain and dogs potty on the poop deck

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It’s all hands — and paws — on deck.

A woman who lives on a sailboat with her husband and dog is showing her followers on TikTok a first-mate-hand account of their life at sea.

“This boat has tons of storage but the best thing about it is the boat dog,” joked Tula, who goes by  @tulasendlesssummer  on the app, in a resurfaced viral clip.

In a 36-second video  with over 2.1 million views , Tula walks through the 1978 DeFever 43-inch boat to reveal the vessel’s many compartments, including their bedroom, a guest room, living room, kitchen, bathrooms and the “man cave.”

The houseboat tour started with the “V-room” that’s shaped like a V at the head of the ship featuring two twin beds and an attached bathroom for guests.

Just a few steps away, Tula enters the “engine room” also known as her husband Bill’s special space, the man cave. The room is tightly packed with black and red sailboat equipment, with little to no room for a man to kick back and relax.

The “saloon” is where they sit together in the navy blue cushion couches with white cushions. Tula has the interior room decorated with light cherry wood cabinets and a long table. They often refer to the area as a living room because it has an open floor plan that allows the family to walk around freely.

The sailboat’s kitchen, which they refer to as “the galley” features a refrigerator, freezer and oven. She walks around the small space showcasing the white cabinets with dark gray handles, brown counter tops and two windows.

She concludes the tour with “the captain’s quarters.” The bedroom has a cherry wood queen-sized bed, sleek dressers, and an attached full bathroom including a white toilet, glass door shower and a sink with counter space.

Toula and her husband’s room is decorated with cherry wood furniture including the bed headboard, dressers and two nightstands. Each end table has a small lamp with a decorated base and beige shade. They also have two vintage light fixtures above the bed.

The couple and their dog are able to walk around the spacious bedroom. On the right side of the bed, there is a desk against the wall with several small windows above.

The family of three plans to make some tweaks to their home, but for now, they are enjoying life on the sea, spearfishing, and traveling throughout the Caribbean.

“Still on the list of things to do: Paint the stairway to the v-berth, redo aft cabin bathroom floor, paint new ceiling panels [and] varnish the floors,” Tula captioned the video.

However, the unconventional lifestyle involves unique ways of performing simple tasks such as showering, doing  laundry , or taking the  dog to the bathroom .

In a follow-up video, Tula explained how they  take advantage of the rainwater  to provide their home with a water supply.

“First thing we do is set up a rain catchment, so we can fill up our water tanks that are used for dishes, showers [and] drinking,” Tula said in the clip.

While the couple celebrates days of heavy rainfall, Tula confesses, “I promise we shower more than just when it rains.”

Many people were impressed by the spacious and unique lifestyle Tula’s family lives. “Can I come stay?” one TikToker joked.

@tulasendlesssummer I promise we shower more than just when it rains 😜 . . . #boatlife #livingonaboat #offgrid ♬ original sound – Tulas Endless Summer

“Where does the dog use the bathroom if you’re out at sea?” another asked.

Tula replied, “If offshore for multiple days she goes on the poop deck. We throw a bucket on it and scrub it down good with soap when we get back to the dock.”

“But offshore overnight cruising is only about 3% of the time. All other times she gets a dinghy ride and walk multiple times a day,” she added.

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A Tennessee bill doesn’t prove ‘chemtrails’ are real

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Chemtrails are a conspiracy theory that claims the condensation trails behind aircraft are part of a secret, large-scale program to poison the atmosphere with toxic chemicals. Multiple government agencies and scientists say chemtrails are not real.

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill that would prohibit the release of chemicals into the atmosphere within the state’s borders "with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight." The bill does not mention chemtrails. The state House has not yet voted on the bill.

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Social media users are claiming Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that would ban "chemtrails" — something that doesn’t exist.

A March 20 Instagram reel shared a video of an aircraft flying across a blue sky, leaving a white streak in its wake. Text on the video said, "If chemtrails are ‘conspiracy theory,’ then why did Tennessee just pass a bill that would actively ban the practice?"

Another Instagram post shared a screenshot of an X post that said, "The Tennessee State Senate passed a bill today that would ban the spraying of chemicals for geoengineering in our skies." The post’s caption said, "Tennessee Senate confirms that ch!m trails are real."

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We’ve debunked several claims about chemtrails , a conspiracy theory that claims the condensation trails behind aircraft are part of a secret, large-scale program to poison the atmosphere with toxic chemicals. Multiple government agencies and scientists say chemtrails are not real.

The Tennessee bill , which the state Senate passed March 18, would amend the Tennessee Air Quality Act to "prohibit the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight."

The bill doesn’t mention "chemtrails." It says the federal government "may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere." 

Geoengineering is an umbrella term for technologies that could be used to manipulate the environment to offset climate change’s effects. Some methods that would inject aerosols into the atmosphere have been the focus of misinformation .

We found no reports that the government is conducting geoengineering in Tennessee. Nongovernmental entities must report to the government planned weather modification activities in the U.S.; none have been reported in Tennessee.

The chemtrails conspiracy theory claims the chemicals released into the air are intended to reduce people’s life expectancy or sterilize them, control people’s minds or control the weather, Harvard University researchers said.

During the Tennessee General Assembly’s discussion of the bill this month, some state lawmakers and witnesses who testified in support of the bill referred directly and indirectly to chemtrails.

Republican state Rep. Chris Todd said during a hearing that he’s seen chemtrails all his life. "When jets were invented, we started seeing chemtrails," he said.

But "chemtrail" is a misnomer for the streaks of white sometimes seen across the sky. They’re actually aircraft condensation trails, or contrails, and contain no chemicals.

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Contrails form when hot humid air from aircraft exhaust mixes with cool atmospheric air — similar to exhaling on a cold day and seeing your breath cloud, the National Weather Service said.

The more humid the air, the longer contrails will remain visible in the sky, the National Weather Service said. NASA’s Earth Observatory said some contrail clusters have lasted up to 14 hours.

"Persistence of contrails is neither an indication that they contain some kind of chemical, nor that it is some kind of spray," the National Weather Service said.

The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also say contrails are a natural phenomenon and don’t threaten humans’ health.

Dr. Denise Sibley, who supports the bill and introduced herself as an internal medicine doctor from Johnson City, Tennessee, said, "There’s no doubt weather modification is taking place within our state." We found no evidence such as news stories or government news releases to support that claim.

When lawmakers asked what entities are doing this, Sibley pointed to the White House’s June 2023 research plan related to solar radiation modification — a form of geoengineering — and named the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

The 44-page White House report explores the potential benefits of and risks from research into solar geoengineering, which are methods to reflect sunlight away from the earth to cool the atmosphere and partially offset climate change.

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy produced the report, with NOAA’s support, to fulfill a congressional mandate in the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The report doesn’t include any proposed federal government action on solar radiation modification research.

NOAA and NASA spokespeople told PolitiFact the agencies are not conducting atmospheric geoengineering experiments.

Tennessee Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones said during discussion of the bill that he opposed it because "it seems like a lot of this is based on conspiracy theories."

In response, Republican state Rep. Monty Fritts, who introduced the bill, said, "Unfortunately, it is a wild thing, but I think it is real."

The state House is considering the bill; it’s unclear whether it has enough support to pass.

Social media posts claimed a Tennessee bill that would ban the atmospheric release of chemicals is evidence chemtrails are real.

The bill does not mention chemtrails. It refers to geoengineering, which is a real practice but not in use in Tennessee.

Scientists, government agencies and the U.S. Air Force say chemtrails are not real and are part of a conspiracy theory. Aircraft condensation trails contain no chemicals.

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FEIG ELECTRONIC: Moscow-City Skyscrapers Streamline Parking Access and Control with Secure RFID

Feig electronic partners with isbc group to deploy ucode dna rfid security and parking access control solution in moscow business district.

Weilburg, Germany  — December 3,  2019  —  FEIG ELECTRONIC , a leading global supplier of radio frequency identification (RFID) readers and antennas with fifty years of industry experience, announces deployment of the UCODE DNA RFID security and parking contactless identification solution in the Moscow International Business Center, known as Moscow-City, one of the world’s largest business district projects.

The management of Moscow-City not only selected long-range, passive UHF RFID to implement in its controlled parking areas, it also chose to implement UCODE DNA , the highest form of secure RAIN RFID technology, developed by NXP Semiconductors.

Panoramic view of Moscow city and Moskva River at sunset. New modern futuristic skyscrapers of Moscow-City – International Business Center, toned

“Underscoring NXP’s innovation and leadership in developing advanced RAIN RFID technologies, our UCODE DNA was chosen to be incorporated with the FEIG and ISBC implementation of the contactless identification system in the prestigious Moscow-City,” said Mahdi Mekic, marketing director for RAIN RFID with NXP Semiconductors. “This exciting project represents yet another successful deployment of NXP’s contactless portfolio, and showcases our continued ability to meet the high-security requirements of highly demanding applications without compromising user convenience.”

“UCODE DNA is considered the only identification technology to match the physical protection of a barrier with the cybersecurity necessary to truly protect entrances from unauthorized access,” said Manuel Haertlé, senior product manager for FEIG Electronic. “As a respected contactless payment technology company, FEIG applies security know-how from its payment terminals, which are fully certified according to the latest high-class security standards, into our RFID systems. FEIG vehicle access control RFID readers incorporate advanced secure key storage elements, supporting various methods for secure key injection.”

FEIG’s partner ISBC Group provided the knowledge and support for this successful implementation using  FEIG’s long-range UHF RFID . The resulting system enables authorized vehicle entry into areas reserved for private residential use or corporate tenants, while also allowing availability of temporary, fee-based visitor parking. Thanks to the cryptographic authentication of UCODE DNA, both the tag and reader must go through an authentication procedure before the reader will validate the data from the tag, which is transmitted wirelessly. This level of authentication is typically used in the most secure data communication networks.

“The system’s two-step authentication means that only authorized equipment can handle the secure protocol and the data exchange with the UCODE DNA based tag. Without the required cryptographic secrets, other readers would query the tag in vain, because the tag’s response cannot be interpreted or understood,” said Andrey Krasovskiy, director of the RFID department at ISBC Group. “On top of this, each data exchange in the authentication process is unique, so even if a malicious actor were to intercept the communication, the transmission is only good for a single exchange and the tag’s unique identity is protected from cloning.”

Established in 1992 and still growing, Moscow-City is the revitalization and transformation of an industrial riverfront into a new, modern, vibrant and upscale business and residential district. A mix of residential, hotel, office, retail and entertainment facilities, it is located about four kilometers west of Red Square along the Moscow River. Twelve of the twenty-three planned facilities have already been completed, with seven currently under construction. Six skyscrapers in Moscow-City reach a height of at least 300 meters, including Europe’s tallest building, Federation Tower, which rises more than 100 stories.

Partnering with ISBC and deploying FEIG Electronic RFID solutions, the Moscow International Business Center is delivering security and access control to its city center today, as it grows into the city of tomorrow.

About FEIG ELECTRONIC

FEIG ELECTRONIC GmbH, a leading global supplier of RFID readers and antennas is one of the few suppliers worldwide offering RFID readers and antennas for all standard operating frequencies: LF (125 kHz), HF (13.56 MHz), UHF (860-960 MHz). A trusted pioneer in RFID with more than 50 years of industry experience, FEIG ELECTRONIC delivers unrivaled data collection, authentication, and identification solutions, as well as secure contactless payment systems. Readers from FEIG ELECTRONIC, which are available for plug-in, desktop, and handheld applications, support next-generation contactless credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, NFC and access control credentials to enable fast, accurate, reliable and secure transactions. For more information, visit:  www.feig.de/en

Founded in Moscow in 2002, ISBC Group provides knowledge and support to integrators for their successful implementation of RFID and smart card-based solutions. The company specializes in the distribution of smart card equipment, contact and contactless card manufacturing, smart card and RFID personalization services, and information security.  Its Research and Design Center is focused specifically on RFID, primarily HF and UHF solutions with NXP tags, and software development for the smart card industry. For more information visit:  https://isbc-cards.com/

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