Originally posted by Brenjen
How did he hit the rocks? Did he back into them? I don't see damage to the bow. Where did he hit the rocks? It's deep enough where he is down by the stern to draught him several times over (that boat has a very shallow draught).
The picture doesn't seem to fit the story.
He was taking the boat from the Import firm (not factory as i have said earlyer) and was driving it up the coast to were he lives. For the most part he had stayed in open water, but decided to go closer to shore between all the islands and stuff when the weather turned abit worse.
He followed a local boat so he felt safe. The problem was that the local guy suddenly went to port. When our guy saw that he decided to go out into open water again (following his electronic charts and GPS). On his way out to open ocean he held a speed of 15-17 knots when he struck an underwater rock with one of his propellers. The propeller shaft got bent and he started to take in water. The alarms sounded and he stopped the other engine and drifted while checking the damage and pumping. While doing that the boat had turned with the stern against the waves and a few of them hadc ome over the stern and suddenly filled the boat with too much water and it started sinking. Im guessing he had opened the hatches on the stern deck to look at the engines and the waves filled the engine compartment quickly.
A combination of bad judgement and bad luck.
-edit- looking at the story again I see that the rescue service had actually reached the boat before it sank and had gotten pumps onboard. It was while pumping it out that a couple of waves got over the stern and quickly filled her. If the rescue service had gotten there 2 minutes earlyer the boat would have been safe.
