Video from my last crossing

[Kevin Kaldenbach]

Here is a video from my last crossing where I found an abandoned sailboat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtlnhSzHhss

[Jerry Hammernik]

Kevin,

Did you learn anymore about what happened aboard the boat? The red paint seemed very strange.

[Kevin Kaldenbach]

They were rescued from the boat 3 day prior. I had waited in port for a blow to move through so I assume they were caught in it. I did contact the person listed as the owner who said he sold the boat to a couple who were going to sail it from Houston home to New Orleans? He said they left with little weather information.

[RIKanaka]

I wonder if they splashed the red paint on it prior to being rescued to make the boat easier to spot from the air.

[Neil Gordon]

Maybe the red paint was just badly secured on deck.

What was the value of the boat, assuming the damage was cosmetic? It's a long way to tow, I know.

[RIKanaka]

But why would you have red paint on the deck? Unless the boat was torn away from a dock by the storm? The mystery deepens.

[Kevin Kaldenbach]

I would have to think that the paint and the pfd were someone’s Idea of how to mark the boat either to draw attention or for a future attempt to salvage it. Everyone asks, why did I not salvage the boat. I don’t know that Neptune wanted me to help myself to someone else’s misery. Second I looked at my Cape Dory then the Hunter and decided I was not going to scuttle my Cape Dory to own a Hunter.
Kevin