http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2016-05-06&dayid=1365#
It can happen so easily and in the best of conditions ....sad to see a fine yacht end up like that.
Yes indeed, very sad and another chart plotter victim too.
We are heading to Tonga and Fiji from Opua NZ tomorrow with a collection of georeferenced googleearth sat images to help us through the maze of coral and shoals. They will run on the 10 inch Samsung in either OpenCPN, Ozzi Explorer or Memory Map.
We have some ratlines to make as well so we get a better view of whats ahead from the spreaders.
I hope their boat gets salvaged and reborn to sail another day!
Good luck on the trip Ambler and remember the Mark one eyeball is still the best instrument to use to avoid the rocks and shoals, (and coral reef in this case) 
A credit to them that they had discussed the crew duties in an emergency and went through a thought out process.
May have been on too small a scale chart to see the reefs. Very easy to do with paper charts an even easier on a chart plotter.
Many of the official charts in that area are woefully out of date, some dating back to the late 1800's were charted by the Admiralty. It is entirely likely that many of the reefs are not marked or even known about.
Just good that there was no loss of life or injury.
A horrible thing to happen
I have only ever been aground on rocks once (not on mine and luckily it eventually came off) and not keen to repeat it
Regards Don
