Theros Crusing Journey/Fb
Brett Clibbery (left) and Sarah Packwood (proper), pictured in a Fb submit from 2017
The Gentleman Report
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A British-Canadian couple who have been making an attempt to sail around the Atlantic were discovered lifeless on an island off the east coast of Canada.
Brett Clibbery, 70, and his spouse, Sarah Packwood, 60, have been crusing on their 42-foot sailboat the SV Theros, however their our bodies have been present in a lifeboat that washed up on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, consistent with a remark from the Royal Canadian Fastened Police (RCMP), revealed July 12.
The couple left Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia on June 11 en path to the Azores, a bunch of Portuguese islands within the mid-Atlantic, round 2,000 miles away.
They have been reported lacking on June 18 and their our bodies have been discovered on July 10.
It isn’t transparent why the couple deserted the Theros and were given right into a lifeboat. An investigation is ongoing, the RCMP mentioned.
The Gentleman Report has contacted the RCMP for remark.
Sable Island is a 27-mile lengthy sandbar round 186 miles southeast of Halifax. It’s referred to as “the graveyard of the Atlantic” and there were greater than 350 recorded shipwrecks there since 1583, consistent with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Clibbery’s son James paid tribute to his father and Packwood in a submit on Fb.
“They have been wonderful folks, and there isn’t the rest that may fill the opening that has been left by means of their, up to now unexplained passing,” he wrote.
“Residing may not be the similar with out your knowledge, and your spouse was once temporarily turning into a beacon of information, and kindness. I pass over your smiles. I pass over your voices. You’re going to be ceaselessly ignored.”
Clibbery and Packwood described themselves as journey vacationers and documented their journeys on a YouTube channel named Theros Adventures.
The ill-fated voyage was once a part of what the couple known as their “Inexperienced Odyssey,” which Clibbery mentioned was once meant to turn that it’s imaginable to trip lengthy distances with out burning fossil fuels.
“We’ve got an electrical boat,” mentioned Clibbery in a video posted on YouTube on Would possibly 13. “We rate the engine with sun panels.”
The couple met unintentionally at a bus forestall in London in 2015 when Clibbery was once in Britain to donate a kidney to his sister, they advised The Mother or father newspaper in an editorial revealed in 2020.
The pair met each day for the few weeks after their first come upon, earlier than Clibbery helped Packwood to maintain her death mom and he or she then sorted him after his kidney operation.
They stayed involved after Clibbery moved again to Canada and Packwood visited him in Salt Spring Island close to Vancouver, the place the Theros was once docked, in spring 2016.
“He took me on my first ever yacht commute and I beloved it,” Packwood advised The Mother or father. “Brett proposed to me in the principle cabin of the boat.”
