I believe we spoke with the Captain responsible for getting the boat off. Another "Captain" and I use the word loosly put her on the reef.

Anyway the story is that the rescue captain hired a commercial sail training boat to get it off. The training boat was close to 300 feet and close to 225 tons. They use logs neat the boat aground and set them up so when the hauled the boat she would roll on the logs. Then they set up a (I'm trying to remember here) 3" dia line from the large boat, ran it around the waterline keel of the boat aground and tied it off. Then the training boat got up a small head of steam and let her weight do the rest. The boat was (from what the rescue captain said) gently rolled off the reef and taken to Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama for repairs.

Never heard what happened to the captain that put her on the reef. She sat up there for the better part of a month. I don't know if or how much water she was taking on when refloated. Shelter Bay was a good day or two away (about 18 hours motoring or sailing straight there if the winds are cooperative).

There were I think 5 boats that season that went on reefs. We watched as one went aground in the West Lemmons and it was a rather frightening sight. That boat ended up abandoned and took about 8 weeks before the sticks fell down.

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