Bacause of someone's reckless decision, HMS Bounty (replica) lost
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wow. seems they werent prepared for such magnatude of a hurricane... pumps not tested nor functional plus a plethora of other oversights.
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Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
The arrogance of the captain cost him his live, and the ship to the world.
Many things done wrong, to late, or not at all by the entire crew.
Many things done wrong, to late, or not at all by the entire crew.
There is a great book, based on the Coast Guard inquiry, about the loss. I wish I remembered the name, I think it was "Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy." We listened to the audio version of it on a car trip and even my wife, who is not into ships or the sea at all, was both gripped by the story and horrified at how many things were done wrong and how many other things went wrong for the crew.
I went aboard the Bounty on tall ships visit to Toronto not long before the disaster. It was such a lovely ship. 
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I was sitting in a restaurant in Newport, RI the night before Sandy hit. It was all over the news that it was coming, andI remember remarking to my wife, "This place is going to look entirely different tomorrow."
We left for home early the next morning and drove in heavy rain almost all of the way back to Ann Arbor. By the time we got home I saw the news of Bounty's foundering.
Bounty had a special place in my heart as I had made a detailed study of her history (not the replica) when I was younger. I have many books on the subject. It made me especially sad that this ship met such a tragic avoidable fate.
We left for home early the next morning and drove in heavy rain almost all of the way back to Ann Arbor. By the time we got home I saw the news of Bounty's foundering.
Bounty had a special place in my heart as I had made a detailed study of her history (not the replica) when I was younger. I have many books on the subject. It made me especially sad that this ship met such a tragic avoidable fate.
I was a teenager when a multi-page spread on the construction and sailing of the Bounty was appeared in National Geographic. Beautiful pictures! It was very special to see a "real" tall ship made sea worthy enough for a trip half-way around the world to Tahiti. I used the pictures from that article in selecting paints and rigging for a Revell version of the ship that I built two years later. Much later still, I was able to go aboard the Bounty at dock in Maryland. I was, of course, a little disappointed to see the engine room and some of the other concessions that had to be made in order to accommodate the filming movies on the vessel. I did not know that the movie (starring Brando and Howard) was a box office flop. I still watch every time I see it come on TV--mostly just to see the ship in action!