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="" />