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On Corpse Pounders Facebook page they posted a video of a Dream Yacht Charter lagoon 400s2 being towed in with airbags under her, later he showed her on the hard with her bottom ripped to shreds... Anyone know any details? The boat was chartered from there Antigua base it seems.

Great, we are supposed to be chartering a Lagoon 400s2 from their Antigua base in 2 months. We're on a 2016 owners version. Hope it's not this one...

This one was a 2015 " aura" was her name I believe. I am just interested in where it happened? He said the quarantine flag was up, so I'm thinking Sopers, Road Towne or Jost?

Danny Kay?

Damn auto correct! I am old enough to know and remember Danny Kay though.

More disturbed by the 'Kay'

... even more disturbed that the last word on facebook... was ..."Canadians"

Update - courtesy of the coconut-C&W
Apparently, it was a French national - bringing the Cat in on a delivery.. "single-handedly"
Might not get a clear, clean, delivery sign-off on this one

Saw this on Facebook...

Not a charter. It was a delivery from Antigua. Single handed captain ran into Ginger Island and was not found for 48 hours. VISAR discovered the yacht on a routine sweep.

So the Captain never called a " Mayday" on 16..for 48 hours? Now that's one scary captain..reminds me of another one down here who ran my friend's cat into the breakwater at St Martin..put it on a mooring with about three feet of bow missing and hopped on a plane! Be careful who you hire to deliver your boat!

This entire post, including and especially the Facebook video (who is this guy Corpsepounder anyway?), which without knowing ANYTHING, automatically assumes the boat was on charter (with Canadians???), is full of completely erroneous statements and speculations.
Well, the boat was NOT on charter. This happened during a professional delivery where steering was lost as well as one engine.

I am not at liberty to write more for the time being, but I think everyone should restrain to make comments without evidence.

Just my 2 cents.

Well, that would make for a boring forum....

I totally agree Michael, without any solid info, it is imprudent to speculate.

As I read the thread yesterday, I wondered if the captain may have had a heart attack or if the boat was taking on water and he/she decided the only way to save it from sinking was to try and make shore.

There are any number of reasons a boat can end up in a state like that.

We also don't know if the electrics/electronics were working. If not, it is pretty hard to put out any kind of radio call and if it was a brand new boat being delivered, it likely didn't have a lot of safety equipment (such as flares) aboard either.

I did a couple of deliveries from Guadeloupe to Tortola more than 20 years ago for a company that is no longer in business. I was amazed at how little was aboard those yachts.

I vowed I would never do it again. We didn't have any safety equipment except a life ring on that last boat! If I hadn't been too broke to buy a plane ticket back to Tortola, I would have told them to find someone else. We left Guadeloupe on a Sunday and the base manager there was annoyed that we had disturbed his day off. He couldn't have cared less if the boat was delivered safely or not.

The depth finder hadn't been hooked up, the radio didn't work and the mast light worked for a while and then didn't. We were boarded by the Coast Guard just before reaching Round Rock and were given all sorts of citations.

I'm just sayin' ... anything might have happened. Oh and yeah, please lay off us Canadians! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

...but the French are free game!
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Please take note of my name ... and no, I am not French Canadian.

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I think he said Canadians because there is a Canadian flag on her aft rail in the video. My interest in it was more of a curiosity as to how or why it happened... I'm sure there are some things that could be learned from it.

That's what I guessed, I'm Canadian and I work for a very large French company (Bureau Veritas) <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />

...Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Sigh! I was pointing out that it now seems a French national is being implicated in this unfortunate event, following some unidentified "Canadians" initially being drubbed as the "culprits".

As I am both Canadian and of French ancestry (father from Paris) some of us (me for one) were kind of being dealt a double uppercut.

No, there is nothing wrong with French Canadians, other than many Québécoi love to eat Poutine. Ewwwww! That stuff is just wrong. If you are going to add cheese and sauces to potatoes, I much prefer gratin Dauphinoise ... heavy on the garlic.

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Please don't start defending poutine now. As far as I'm concerned, there is absolutely [color:"red"]no[/color] culinary excuse for it! I mean cheese curds ... really?

^{Darn it, can't find a good old fashioned "raspberry" in the smilies.}

I like Canadians! They just need to figure out the whole bacon thing!

LOL ... it's the Americans who have to figure out the bacon thing! What the hell is Canadian bacon anyway? [color:"red"]WE[/color] call it back bacon!

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Its like French toast and English muffins and what the heck is London broil???

Canadian bacon is what we Americans call ham I think?

Nope ... it is back bacon. Ham is from the pigs upper leg - the thigh and butt area.

How about that delicious treat -- Poutine??

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/12-foods-canada-has-given-the-world-besides-poutine/

Now we are really off topic, Eh?

Canadians, French and bacon aside - does anyone know the back story of the name of that cat Corpse Pounder? We saw it when we pulled into Nanny Cay on Sunday and thought WTH?

Sorry If I offend anyone that this boat may belong to.. but what a terrible name for a boat "Corpse Pounder"? maybe this means something completely different in nautical speak... but the way I interpreted it... yikes! Maybe the captain realized the name of the boat and abandoned ship mid-trip!

Maybe I misunderstood, but corpse pounder is the name of the facebook poster, not the boat.

I'm guessing it's a metal band name.

OK ... I get it now. The fellow who originally posted the video has a Leopard 46 named Corpse Pounder corpsepounder.com

I have no idea what the name of the Lagoon is or even if it is named yet.

OMG...A modern day love story indeed.... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />

LOL ... some things just can't be explained.

The cat in question is called Aura and is a Canadian registered vessel. From my source IN Nanny Cay, she got up close and personal with Ginger Island while being delivered single-handed from SXM to go into Dream Yacht Charters fleet.
From what I know, the only Canadian connection is the Maple Leaf flying off the stern, not sure where the skipper is from.

When I search for a Lagoon 400 S2 named Aura it shows up on multiple charter broker sites as 2014 model based in Antigua. Maybe it was in DYCs Antigua fleet and was being moved to the BVI fleet? As I mentioned above, we are chartering a Lagoon 400 S2 from DYC in Antigua in a couple months. I can't be certain, but when I was booking the charter and looking at their boats I thought I remember seeing a 2014 Lagoon 400 S2 in their Antigua fleet. Now they only show a 2015 and the 2016 that we are going to be on. Not that all this really matters to more than a handful of people, but it is kind of fun trying to put the pieces together.

Matt

So... pulling the pieces together....
A French national... got so excited eating the poutine imported from Canada by the Cdn, who isn't French, but says she is...or maybe not... not sure
..that he, perhaps she... somehow crunched up a perfectly new Cat... blamed it on steering, motor, etc
All the while... trying to figure out what the heck is Cdn bacon, back bacon.. and wondering what the heck is the difference with Ham
Not that most of us would know any difference from true sliced tenderloin... versus cooked ham....
Have I got this summarized 'bout right?

Nope, not a misunderstanding. The name of the cat is Corpse Pounder - same logo on the website is on the side of the cat. Just curious .....

The boat is named corpse pounder, I've followed them for a bit now and they seem very nice! Lol
I wish my autocorrect hadn't turned "Cay" into Kay, but I do like Danny Kay, he was a good actor.
I like bacon, real bacon! And I still like Canadians even though they really know nothing about bacon.

Kevin???Dont hate all bacons!

I much prefer gammon

CGB, sounds 100% accurate to me! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Laugh.gif" alt="" />