This is the second year in a row that a boat tried to enter Elizabeth Harbour between Fowl Cay And Guana Cay and crashed on the coral reefs and rocky bar there. Yesterday’s incident involved a 44′ Lagoon sail cat named “Next Life”….Looked like a new boat with French Canadian couple with a golden retriever and a black cat aboard. The boat was reported to be partially submerged inside the bar in somewhat deeper water. When we arrived it was beam to in the surf on a hard hump in about 2′ of water. The keel stubs have broken off and attempts have been abandoned to pull to vessel seaward. Instead now the attempts are to pull it off the bar into a small patch of deeper water on the inside on the almost high rising tide. Some bagged valuables, the dog, the cat, and the couple in their swamped inflatable have been rescued from the vessel.
Overseas salvage vessel Amazing Grace from Sampson Cay is on the scene today and salvage operations have begun.
Reported by Peter Dawson
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