X-Message-Number: 23145 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:18:46 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Ev Cooper Corrections The articles from _Cryonics_ on Ev Cooper Mike Price reprints in #23124 were most interesting. Readers may have noticed some discrepancy in the dates, however; it says Cooper left Nantucket Dec.17 but his friends reported him missing in mid-November. As it happens, I have some correspondence from some of Cooper's friends which I've used to correct that report as follows: > Ev's optimism may have been a factor in his disappearance and presumed >death. Ev had spent the summer of 1982 in Nantucket helping his friends >finish construction of their sailboat. On October 9th, while they were >putting the newly completed sailboat through its paces, a sudden gale blew >through Nantucket harbor, with ninety-knot winds out of the Northeast. A >large charter motor-sailer dragged her Bruce anchor and smashed into Ev's >boat, the PELICAN. PELICAN was apparently rather seriously damaged by the >accident; and the insurance company for the commercial vessel which caused >the damage was refusing to pay off, calling the storm and the damage "an >act of God." > Ev's friends urged him to remain in Nantucket for the winter and stay >with > (9) > > >them while he completed repairs to PELICAN. Unfortunately, Ev was anxious >to return to Beaufort, N.C., as an unusually severe winter was predicted >for the Northeast. So, Ev made makeshift repairs and left Nantucket on >Oct. 17. A few days later his friends received a Christmas card from Ev >saying that he was unable to find a sailing companion at Martha's Vineyard >and so he was sailing alone. He failed to arrive at Beaufort on schedule >and so, in mid-November his friends had a Coast Guard search performed. >There was and has been no word from Ev. He failed to change his forwarding >address for mail, and no friends heard from him, or Coast Guard or other >vessels sighted him since shortly after he left Martha's Vineyard on or >about Oct. 21st. There is a small chance that Ev and the PELICAN may be >alive, but disabled, floating somewhere in the Atlantic. There is a >smaller chance that Ev set off for Europe or out to sea for an extended >trip. This latter speculation is dismissed by those who knew Ev most >recently and well; they say he was much too concerned about the condition >of his damaged PELICAN to risk such a journey. Further comments. There is a Beaufort, S.C. (named in the _Cryonics_ article) as well as N.C., but newspaper clippings make it clear that the N.C. one is correct. Cooper did, evidently, buy Christmas cards in October (said they were cheap). I don't recall the "Jump for Jesus" piece Mike refers to--could it be a short article Cooper wrote for _Freeze-Wait-Reanimate_ that has slipped my memory, or something more substantial? More info appreciated. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23145