demonboy
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This is from Sam Coles of s/y Ramprasad:
Sad to read this as Sam was the first sailor to take me under his wing. I sailed hundreds of miles aboard Ramprasad with him and I have Sam to thank for my love of sailing. Glad to hear he is ok but this marks the end of an era.
On Sun 27th Sept Ramprasad grounded on a reef 20 miles from Nosy Mitzio in Madagascar and was badly holed and wrecked. Sam and Dao abandoned when the deck was awash and reached Nosy Vory 1.3M away in the dinghy with o/b where fishermen helped us. They took us back up the coast to Baie Ambarata from where we travelled y'day to Diego Suarez (Antsiranana). Navigators please beware the reef in posn 12deg38.1S 48deg49.5E wrongly shown on Navionics charts as an island. Banc Ampamonty is a reef and very hard to see in the strong winds which we often get here. Sam and Dao are alive and uninjured!
Sad to read this as Sam was the first sailor to take me under his wing. I sailed hundreds of miles aboard Ramprasad with him and I have Sam to thank for my love of sailing. Glad to hear he is ok but this marks the end of an era.