OUCH!! What NOT TO DO with a sailboat near a REEF... in St Maarten / St Martin, SXM, CARIBBEAN
Captain Rick Moore
Captain Rick Moore: The high-authority master of the 70ft steel schooner Sophisticated Lady, navigating 20 years of blue-water adventure from Panama to the Pacific.
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In early 2013, a true Caribbean character, D Randy West, known fondly as the ‘Commodore’ of the Caribbean finally realized a 30 year old dream… to own what is now a classic sailing yacht which he helped launch in 1977. He and 200 other people all gathered to physically lift by hand the brand new 75′ sailing catamaran ‘Ppalu’ into the water from the beach where she was built in St Martin, Caribbean. She immediately became the fastest and most well known sailing yacht in the world, and also the biggest sailing catamaran at the time.
Able to achieve speeds in excess of 25knots, Ppalu’s pedigree was true from the start, and she turned heads everywhere she went and bore the covers of many a magazine.
Tragically she had been very much neglected in her life as a day-charter boat in the British Virgin Islands over the past 20+ years, and was in dire need of tender love and care when Randy assumed command. He initiated “Project Ppalu” and immediately set to work on rebuilding her piece by piece over the course of the entire year. All the efforts were rewarded when she was finally re-launched in December 2013 and he and Joanne started out on their voyage of a lifetime.
Unfortunately, 3 months into their sailing, tragedy struck and ‘Ppalu’ was holed on a reef in St Martin and promptly sank. The video outlines the subsequent salvage operation and shows clearly what is now needed to re-restore this classic sailing vessel and let her heritage live on for future generations to see.
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