The salvage of a so called "unsinkable" Snowgoose at the Island of La Graciosa - Canary Islands.

Once a year 1 or 2 yachts run for various reasons on the Islands reefs.
In this case the skipper arrived from Morocco after a thirty hour exhausting trip and ended up the reef just before high water 0400 hr after getting a piece of polypropylene rope in his propeller and had no time to deploy his anchor as it was secured for ocean crossing, there was a 30 to 35 knots wind which drove him on the reef.



He requested my assistance and we organized all in time to get the boat off with the next spring tide.
It kept us busy for the whole day and at 1930 the boat was high and dry on the hard.
The 25 year old boat can be considered a total loss.






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Update May 22nd: more photo's in the gallery - click link below.

Photo's of the stricken yacht can be found here...
Position of the mishap

Prout Snowgoose   La Graciosa   reef   salvage