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The smaller vessel should also have someone on watch. Never rely on other vessels to turn out of your path. When we are out there at night we always have someone scanning for other boats. How does the captain of a 50+ sport fish allow a freighter to ram him?
Something sounds fishy here or it was a terrible accident in which both vessels had nobody on watch.
Something seems odd about this...a freighter would have noticed via on watch and radar..also,NOAA is able to track via satellite all boat activity insinuated here...me thinks "foul play".
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Thats crazy, So if a freighter hit that boat it wouldent cause any damage? I know they are huge steel hulls but you would think there would be some kind of damage to the ship. Bramuda triangle?
Crazy story. You would think that someone would have been missing if they were on that boat and their friends and relatives would alert the authorities. Might have been an abandoned boat etc
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The boat was a 1981 50' Hatteras. We sold the boat to them last week. They were on the way to Venezuela. It is a tragic thing. The guys on the boat were very nice and all had experance. They had surveyed the boat and then went through the systems, they even went a bought all new safety equiptment before they left. They had a captain (from Miami we think) on board. They left North Myrtle Beach and were stopping in Charleston for the first leg as a shakedown and then were going to run at just above idle to head south.
The boat was a 1981 50' Hatteras. We sold the boat to them last week. They were on the way to Venezuela. It is a tragic thing. The guys on the boat were very nice and all had experance. They had surveyed the boat and then went through the systems, they even went a bought all new safety equiptment before they left. They had a captain (from Miami we think) on board. They left North Myrtle Beach and were stopping in Charleston for the first leg as a shakedown and then were going to run at just above idle to head south.
When you say "they" left, how many were onboard? You may want to contact the coasties with such info.
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We have been talking with the Coast Guard and family of the buyer. I saw this when it was posted and never put 2 and 2 together til we got a call from the Coast Guard. I could tell from the photo it was an older Hatteras. Not everyone ws outside when they left but it is believed that there was 4 on boats. I was not personally involved in the sale, one of our other brokers sold it.
Yes, the boat was at Doc Holidays, for the survey and while they got her ready she was behind our office at Harbourgate.
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Those pictures make it look like it went through the props. Even the painter line on the raft is slack. It wasn't just holed and sunk. It was torn apart.
Very sad, very scary. RIP.
Reports said they recovered one casualty. They must have been wearing a pfd.
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