Varuna's Travels

Not a year goes by with out some boats sinking. This year was no different. “Park Place” is a Manta 42. (From now on, I will refer to it as “PP”)

We first heard about the incident on our ham radio. A catamaran called PP was calling in saying that he and an other were in trouble. They had anchored on the Northern shore of Myaguana, hoping to catch a weather window swinging to enable them to sail southwards. It appears that the wind swang to the north earlier than predicted and brought large seas that came into their anchorage. PP made it out into the ocean to safety, but the other cat caught his anchor rode in the propeller and was sent up onto the beach were he was breaking up. PP tried to go in to help but hit something (Coral?) and damaged his rudder and went back out to sea. All this time, PP was on the ham radio giving us a report of his position and condition of the boat. He noticed that he was taking on water faster than they could pump it out, so decided to go around the island and beach the boat in order to get off, but it appears that in rounding the island they were a bit to close to the reef, hit it and sustained enough damage to force them to abandon PP. They were saved by other boaters in the area. PP eventually drifted into the Jumentoes were it was reported spotted by some fishermen, as being washed up on Racoon Cay. These pics show a Manta 42 (sistership), the area of the incident, and the remains of the boat.

# posted by Varuna's Travels : 10:11 AM