Trajedy ~ Nordhavn 62

This is all the information I could find:

From the Coast Guard Documentation data base query:

There is a 62 foot Nordhavn named Charolette B owned by:

HAROLD & EDITH GREENBERG FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST DATED 12-4-92
501 N HAPPY VALLEY ROAD
PRESCOTT, AZ 66305

>From "Lectronic Lattitude"
"Sailor Reported Killed Aboard Powerboat at Mag Bay
April 21 - Bahia Magdalena, BCS

"On Wednesday we heard that the Charlotte B, a 67-ft Nordhavn trawler,
was having problems doing the Baja Bash near Mag Bay," reports Axel Heller of
La Paz. "The report was that one person had been injured and that the Mexican
Navy was responding. This morning the news was worse - the Charlotte B had
somehow been lost on the rocks, one person had died, and the remaining four
crew had been air-lifted out. The crewmember who was lost was reportedly from
a sailboat berthed at Marina Palmira in La Paz. It's unclear how the boat went
onto the rocks, but the wind was reportedly blowing 35 knots or more, and the
seas were rough."

Not many on the list have bashed up from Cabo, but it can be a
struggle,even for a Nordhavn 62. The wind is frequently out of the North
West/at over 20 knots, with considerable seas which are often up to 8 to 10
feet. Personally we don't stop in Mag Bay routinely--and the site of the
wreckage is not really near the normal entrance.

This entire coast is rather inhospitable. The harbor at Mag bay is the
first possiable refuge from Cabo, next Turtle Bay, then behind Cedros and some
of the smaller bays. (some are off limits because of whale migration and
shoaling).

We will not know what happend to the boat until the crew is interviewed.
I would find it very difficult to thing that a boat would be in close to the
beach without a very careful watch being stood.

The mention of salvage is made. It would take several days for tugs
either from Mexico or S. Calif. to reach this area, and then the boat would
have to be bridled and an attempt to pull her off. There from the photos you
don't know how much damage is done on the other side, or how much more damage
would be done on an attempt to pull her off. We have seen less than stellar
results from attempts by the Mexican Navy or fishing boats attempting to
salvage vessels.

We arrived at Cabo just after the storm in 1982 when a number of boats
had soft groundings--and only a small percent were salvaged on a sandy sloping
beach.

Tragedy!


Sad ending to what must have been a wonderful cruising dream.

www.bajainsider.com/baja-life/general-information/mark-saunders-dies.htm


The vessel involved in a Nordhavn 62. Hull #16. The site of the grounding
is pretty ugly. Inside a boulder field at the base of a cliff. Would be
interesting to know how it got into that spot.

I have never learned words for sorrow.

Enjoy your journey,

joe