Help needed finding International Marina/Boatyard Info

[NBP]

Hello,

I recently posted on the Compromise thread and would be grateful if someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction concerning information about specific marinas/boat yards internationally.

As a friend of Mr Brosnan, the skipper of the ill fated ARC participant, Compromise, I have decided that whilst a long shot, it would not hurt to send an email to marinas and boat yards in the region closest to where Compromise was left unmanned, asking for information to be passed on to us in the event of her being brought in.

It seems Compromise was left in the area of 21°43'N, 26°57'W, - approx 300 miles from Cape Verde Islands, so a list of such businesses in the Islands would be a start and I’m having little success on Google.

Thanks in advance for any pointers you are able to provide,
NBP

 

[SilverBreeze]

Noonsite will help with marina info, click here.

 

[npf1]

Very much a long shot I'm afraid.

The only way she'll get to the Cape Verdes is by sailing or towing her there and anyone doing that would claim salvage rights etc.

Left to her own devices, Compromise could drift Westwards at around 1 knot along the tradewind route. If (a big IF) she did survive, turning up in somewhere along the NE cost of South Amercia in about 2 to 3 months time is a possibility. It might be possible to run a few calculations to narrow it down a little but the assumptions that would need to be made would, at best, give an answer that covered a huge area of coastline.

Thought I guess you probably already know this already!

 

[Bajansailor]

There are a LOT of yachts currently underway from the Canaries to the Windies, and many more setting off soon.

I think the best hope of recovery of Compromise is to publicise her last known position where the crew were taken off, perhaps with an estimate as to where she might be now, given an average rate of drift (very difficult I know), and let it be known that if any yacht finds her and brings her across the Atlantic, they will be suitably rewarded.

The Cape Verdes are still less than 600 miles to windward from where Compromise probably is, but this is still a very long way if you are bashing against the wind and current - if another yacht can spare two crew (or even one competent person who can singlehand) then it would be much easier for them to sail Compromise across to the Caribbean.

PS - I doubt that she will fetch up off the coast of South America if she is left to her own devices, and stays afloat - some years ago a singlehanded rowing boat was abandoned after it capsized in approximately the same area, and she washed ashore on a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands some months later after drifting across the Atlantic upside down. And she was recovered....

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Agreed... if she can be found then a crew member can get on board, then via radio hopefully recruit another crew member or two from other boats, and get her sailed across......

Best of luck in your hunt for her... hope its a happy outcome....

 

[NBP]

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Very much a long shot I'm afraid....

Thought I guess you probably already know this already!

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Yep!
But I thought a few emails wouldn't do any harm - at least we can say we tried.