Chocolate Hole Sail Boat on Rocks

benchill · Post by **benchill** » Wed May 13, 2009 6:57 pm

As reported by a few eagle-eyed cam watchers earlier, there is a 42' Beneteau on the rocks.

She came loose this AM just before 10. Our neighbor spotted it and put the locals into action. By the time they could get out to her, she was already on the rocks. Sea tow came from St. Thomas and attempted to move her but it was just too dangerous where she was sitting.

Now, sadly, the tide has moved in and is pounding her against the rocks. As you can see, she is wedged in there.

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Sadly, another boat capsized on Tuesday and is floating inverted in Chocolate Hole too. You can see the doomed sailboat right behind the capsized boat in this picture from yesterday.

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Been a rough week for boats.

bevm · Post by **bevm** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:14 pm

Geez, that's sad. I wonder if that happened during the bad rains last week or more recently? I hope no one was hurt?

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:37 pm

wow, that's rough!

onthelake · Post by **onthelake** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:41 am

Wow - that is so sad!

LMG · Post by **LMG** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:39 am

Oh that's such a bummer. Poor boats

(and boat owners).

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:21 am

Ouch! Now that's gonna leave a mark!

What's that? A quarter of a million dollar boat? oops.

hoosierdaddy · Post by **hoosierdaddy** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:26 am

It makes me sick to see that boat on the rocks. I couldn't imagin how the owner feels. Hope no one was on her when she broke loose.

crasherino · Post by **crasherino** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:07 am

Hopefully its just a boat for recreation and not actually the owners home.

captainjay · Post by **captainjay** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:48 pm

This guy broke lose last year as well and Sea Tow towed it back to St Thomas then. The guy lives in Europe I beleive and the boat sits unattended for long periods. Not realy smart. I hope it's not as bad as it looks. I don't think it made it to the beach last time.
Jay

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:52 pm

That's so sad. I wonder if the guy needs a permanent "boat sitter".... I'd sacrifice my job to do that.

(once he gets it fixed, that is!)

loria · Post by **loria** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:49 pm

wow, she is hard aground! how'd she get in there?

kellyanna · Post by **kellyanna** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:31 pm

Yeah, maybe that guy will let CaGirl & myself sailboat-sit now that we have all this sailin' experience from Capt. Jay & Keith.

bevm · Post by **bevm** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:09 pm

kellyanna wrote:Yeah, maybe that guy will let CaGirl & myself sailboat-sit now that we have all this sailin' experience from Capt. Jay & Keith.

You're just "Deck Fluff"! Your job is to sit there and look cute. You can't help those people!

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Fri May 15, 2009 12:01 am

bevm wrote: You're just "Deck Fluff"! Your job is to sit there and look cute. You can't help those people!

LMAO!

kellyanna · Post by **kellyanna** » Fri May 15, 2009 12:56 am

ROTFL - We maybe he needs some Deck Fluff. At least we could have figured out something was going wrong. I did observe.

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Chocolate Hole Sail Boat on Rocks

Chocolate Hole Sail Boat on Rocks