TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums St. Maarten - St. Martin 49 Meter Yacht runs aground Simpson Lagoon

Good aerial footage. 3rd story in on this video. The preceding stories are interesting too for boaters/sailors

I looked at the video and it seems that they went wide at the turn in the lagoon. There's a spot close to where they are stuck where even a dinghy with a deep prop has to watch out; and I've gone into the IWW fuel dock with catamarans close to that path and the depth sounder came close to reading 0". They must have grounded very hard, or tried to use the engines to push through once aground. There's hardly any tide in St. Martin, and even less inside the lagoon, although water levels do go up after rainfall.

Nice to see other boaters come to the rescue!!!

Nice guys but Towing’s small boats is fraught with issues and liability. Awful small boats to drag that guy off. I hope they didn’t jack up their boats. And the yacht captain owes em big time.

That looked like marina tenders working - and they charge. Luckily for the boat owner it wasn't a LOF salvage situation (Lloyds Open Form)

At first look it seemed just some good samaritans but they do look a little more like working boats.

I’m sure owning/operrating those boats the same as any other with B O A T meaning break out another trillion.

From the SM yacht club deck we love watching the biggies going thru and googling the name and ownership.

Often they have weekly charter prices and some of the folks onboard look like the Clampett family waving to everybody.

It would be fun to the Clampett’s in SXM & St Barts