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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: Michel_Benarrosh]
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04/11/2016 11:24 AM
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Michel_Benarrosh said: This entire post, including and especially the Facebook video (who is this guy Corpsepounder anyway?), which without knowing ANYTHING, automatically assumes the boat was on charter (with Canadians???), is full of completely erroneous statements and speculations. Well, the boat was NOT on charter. This happened during a professional delivery where steering was lost as well as one engine.
I am not at liberty to write more for the time being, but I think everyone should restrain to make comments without evidence.
Just my 2 cents. Well, that would make for a boring forum....
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: Michel_Benarrosh]
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04/11/2016 12:00 PM
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I totally agree Michael, without any solid info, it is imprudent to speculate.
As I read the thread yesterday, I wondered if the captain may have had a heart attack or if the boat was taking on water and he/she decided the only way to save it from sinking was to try and make shore.
There are any number of reasons a boat can end up in a state like that.
We also don't know if the electrics/electronics were working. If not, it is pretty hard to put out any kind of radio call and if it was a brand new boat being delivered, it likely didn't have a lot of safety equipment (such as flares) aboard either.
I did a couple of deliveries from Guadeloupe to Tortola more than 20 years ago for a company that is no longer in business. I was amazed at how little was aboard those yachts.
I vowed I would never do it again. We didn't have any safety equipment except a life ring on that last boat! If I hadn't been too broke to buy a plane ticket back to Tortola, I would have told them to find someone else. We left Guadeloupe on a Sunday and the base manager there was annoyed that we had disturbed his day off. He couldn't have cared less if the boat was delivered safely or not.
The depth finder hadn't been hooked up, the radio didn't work and the mast light worked for a while and then didn't. We were boarded by the Coast Guard just before reaching Round Rock and were given all sorts of citations.
I'm just sayin' ... anything might have happened. Oh and yeah, please lay off us Canadians! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: LianeLeTendre]
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04/11/2016 12:12 PM
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socalnewf
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LianeLeTendre said: Oh and yeah, please lay off us Canadians! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> ...but the French are free game! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: LianeLeTendre]
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04/11/2016 12:58 PM
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LianeLeTendre said: Please take note of my name ... and no, I am not French Canadian.
<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> That's what I guessed, I'm Canadian and I work for a very large French company (Bureau Veritas) <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />
Last edited by socalnewf; 04/11/2016 01:00 PM.
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: LianeLeTendre]
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04/11/2016 03:14 PM
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LianeLeTendre said: Please take note of my name ... and no, I am not French Canadian.
<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> ...Not that there's anything wrong with that....
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: UncleLuff]
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04/12/2016 10:27 AM
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Maybe I misunderstood, but corpse pounder is the name of the facebook poster, not the boat.
I'm guessing it's a metal band name.
M4000 "Lio Kai"
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Re: Lagoon 40 towed into Nanny Kay?
[Re: CottageGirl]
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04/12/2016 10:31 AM
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LianeLeTendre
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OK ... I get it now. The fellow who originally posted the video has a Leopard 46 named Corpse Pounder corpsepounder.comI have no idea what the name of the Lagoon is or even if it is named yet.
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