longjohnsilver
Well-Known Member
Walking through Plymoth yachthaven yesterday there was an annoying alarm coming from one of a raft of 3 princess sports boats, all around 54'. After a few hours someone from a local repair yard appeared to check and turn off the alarm.
I got talking to him as I'd also used his services fairly recently and was rather shocked at what he told me. The Princess in question on closer examination had lost both its 2 front windscreens and all the nav/radar gear etc was also missing. Seems it was found floating in the Med toward the end of last year without anyone on board. The windscreens had both been shattered and all the gear on the roof was missing, although the connections for the tv/sattelite gear had actually been undone and not just swept away. The 2 man crew were both found dead floating in the water. No one knows what happened to them, not wearing lifejackets. But what is fairly apparent is that they either hit some extremely rough weather or the other theory was that there was a sudden release of some underwater gas and they simply fell into a hole. Whatever it was was abviously catastrophic for that sort of damage to occur to an almost new boat and for both crew to be lost.
Just makes you think about what can happen, 2 people setting off for a pleasant days boating and for it all to end in tragedy. What a horrible end for the 2 crew.
I got talking to him as I'd also used his services fairly recently and was rather shocked at what he told me. The Princess in question on closer examination had lost both its 2 front windscreens and all the nav/radar gear etc was also missing. Seems it was found floating in the Med toward the end of last year without anyone on board. The windscreens had both been shattered and all the gear on the roof was missing, although the connections for the tv/sattelite gear had actually been undone and not just swept away. The 2 man crew were both found dead floating in the water. No one knows what happened to them, not wearing lifejackets. But what is fairly apparent is that they either hit some extremely rough weather or the other theory was that there was a sudden release of some underwater gas and they simply fell into a hole. Whatever it was was abviously catastrophic for that sort of damage to occur to an almost new boat and for both crew to be lost.
Just makes you think about what can happen, 2 people setting off for a pleasant days boating and for it all to end in tragedy. What a horrible end for the 2 crew.
