Bad day on the sandbar

[MyopicJoe]

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I wonder if the people taking their picture with the boat, in the video, were boat passengers or people who disliked the captain

[LikaNui]

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Maybe someone got fed up and stealthily pulled his transom plug.

Wouldn't surprise me. But more likely is that he hit a reef AGAIN on the way to the sandbar and the leak came in through a broken rudder post or a tweaked shaft. Maybe one of the through-hull fittings broke. Maybe the head (toilet, for you landlubbers) flooded.
It would be apropos if it was the latter.

[MyopicJoe]

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And I have a lot to say about it.

Wow, what a story, LikaNui. I'd be glad it happened to the captain too, except nice people on the boat got their electronics wet / damaged.

@JPhilipson has a video clip of the wreck. You can see someone helping the captain salvage his flat screen TV (actually I'm assuming it belongs to the captain).

[Composite 2992]

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Maybe someone got fed up and stealthily pulled his transom plug.

[LikaNui]

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Hopefully LikaNui has some info.

I hadn't heard anything about it until I found this thread just now, so I don't know what happed to cause this... but I sure do know that boat.
And I have a lot to say about it.
If anyone is a friend of the owner, then prepare to get mad at me.
I'll start by saying that I wasn't surprised in the slightest when I saw which boat it was. I've had to pull that same boat off of reefs not once but twice, and I know other people who have also towed him off.
He's pissed off everyone at the sandbar numerous times. Every time he goes out, he first blasts by at high speed and the wake from his boat sends every other boat rocking wildly and knocks over anything set up on the sandbar's high spot (chairs, tables, volleyball nets, barbecues, whatever). Worst of all is that he has almost run over children several times! And that's all just as he approaches the sandbar. Almost every time.
Then he tries to anchor his boat. Note the use of the word "tries." He also insists on trying to take the best spot, no matter how many other boats are already there. He'll try to wedge in between, and usually bumps into other boats in the process. He has zero boat-handling skills, and after several unsuccessful attempts he usually relies on other people to swim over to his boat and anchor it for him.
Once anchored, the first thing he does is pull out a pair of huuuuuuge stereo speakers and proceeds to turn the volume up to 15 and blast the hell out of everyone within a mile. Then he and his friends proceed to get drunk and be lewd and rude and offensive to everyone else.
When he finally leaves, he blasts off and his wake shakes everyone else's boats again, and he quite often runs into one of the coral heads as goes back to his slip at Heeia Kea harbor. He keeps his boat there because he was evicted from the first marina he was in when he bought the boat just over one year ago. And he recently ran into another boat while trying to pull into the fuel dock.
Like I said, if he's a friend of yours I'm sorry, but this guy is a frickin' nightmare and he almost singlehandedly ruined all of last summer at the sandbar. As a matter of fact, if you look back at some of my sandbar photos in the Hawaii Boating Photos thread I'm pretty sure you'll see his boat "Aquadelica" in there.
It's a shame to see what happened to his boat, but on the other hand I'll bet big money that a whole lot of the sandbar 'regulars' are cheering. Expect to see that photo posted all over town.
And like my signature line below says...

[Menehune Man]

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Oh My!
I wonder where the water came in from?
Must've been sinking real quick, or they could'a pulled it up higher on the sandbar.
Can always dig it out later.
Glad everyone was okay.

[tutusue]

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Happy to see that everyone's ok. But...DAYAM...that looks like it was a really nice boat. Then there's the loss of iphones and other equipment...not to mention house and car keys.

[GeckoGeek]

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Dropped his camera the day before, iPhone toast, camera questionable .... boy, he's having a bad day!

[zztype]

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Gotta be a bad day for someone. A couple of boats with blue blinking lights, a HFD helicopter overhead, and a boat sticking out of the water at a 45 degree angle.

As of nightfall everyone had left. The boat is still there. I guess salvage will have to wait another day.

Nothing on the news that I can see. Hopefully LikaNui has some info.

Joe Phillipson was onboard and Twittering/posting photos/video today.

http://twitter.com/JPhilipson

[GeckoGeek]

Gotta be a bad day for someone. A couple of boats with blue blinking lights, a HFD helicopter overhead, and a boat sticking out of the water at a 45 degree angle.

As of nightfall everyone had left. The boat is still there. I guess salvage will have to wait another day.

Nothing on the news that I can see. Hopefully LikaNui has some info.