Having been sailing around the globe for the past 6 months, the pair decided to take a break from their 36-foot sailboat and instead take a job delivering a 44-foot yacht named Hazana from Tahiti to San Diego. "I really wish I had taken the time to do that. In 1983, then 23-year-old Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft set sail from Tahiti with her fianc, 34-year-old Richard Sharp, in a 36-foot sailboat named the Hazana. In September 1983, 23-year-old American sailor Tami Oldham Ashcraft set to sea for a 31-day crossing from Tahiti to San Diego, California. She was with her British fianc Richard Sharp, and delivering luxury yacht, Hazana . 20 days into the journey, they were caught in a Category 4 hurricane, bringing with it 15m waves and 150mph winds. People want to convince me it was God, but I don't know. But it definitely made me a lot more cautious.". Ashcraft wrote a memoir about her experience at sea shortly after the incident, but shes been waiting for it to come together on film for 34 years. It reminds me of how I got home. The force threw Ashcraft against the wall, knocking her unconscious. Adrift charts a romance and But that survival instinct [while at sea] just kicked in. ;&zf-IE$m7iVvn9 =r^j"1u`X'g?YVy+ DHr@te6\;yI*YdYe/!a&`,oB#*Bk=S IopbG,rDO%;w6,a/*9+MiE&Ct{}7,2BeN,k-q\tMF`wgw{ohNN^)w*.J*Q'/`5!~l These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Though she couldnt even read for six years afterward due to her head injury, she managed to put her entire story down on paper for her book Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea. I really try to live in the now and absorb as much as I can and be happy. ", "While I was in the survival mode, the grief was fairly low," she continued. WebTami Oldham is on Facebook. Sailor KO'd after hearing fiance's chilling 3 words woke up to
