After pumping it out, he turned to Google: “My boat is sinking, what do I do?” Whitelum had kept the bilge pumps off to save electricity, a rookie mistake, and he awoke to a cabin awash in water. It was moored off Dubrovnik, Croatia, slowly taking on water from a hidden leak, when it was swamped by the wake from a fishing boat. Carausu was, thank heavens, not on board the night it nearly sank. ![]() Whitelum had no sailing experience before he bought a barely used 43-foot Beneteau from three bickering Italians. Carausu, mostly in coastal Australia, Mr. Luckily he had learned a few things in the months before that encounter. When he told her he had a boat, she thought it was a pickup line. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna Carausu was playing guitar and singing for a travel company Riley Whitelum was living on the sailboat he had bought with money saved from working for years on oil rigs. ![]() They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then.
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