http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/07/does-this-snapshot-solve-mystery-of-drowned-family/
www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/search-continues-for-missing-man-teen-children-off-florida-coast-after-body-found/140218/
This is more about what happened. Very sad.
The key point made in the original link, apart from the obvious unseaworthy state of the boat, is that if you mount an outboard on the transom of a boat not designed for one, you better make sure the transom is strong enough, or it could rip a big hole in the stern and send the boat to the bottom.
Is that what happened? Did the outboard come off and rip the transom off? Ace looked unorganised. Those poor kids paid with their lives.
It made me think about the outboard things for sure but in this case i reckon theres more to this tragedy than the outboard.
Sorry... i edited my post. When i see a boat covered in fenders not near.a jetty i always say to myself "why?"
^ Noone's really sure Sectorsteve as the boat has not been found yet. A man named Ace Kimberly was living aboard the 29ft yacht with his three teenage children. They set out one day to take their yacht to another location to have work carried out. Reports say the yacht was not 'seaworthy', they were towing or carrying on deck up to as many as six kayaks (reports vary), the weather turned bad, they had no radio. The last contact from the family was Ace phoning his brother to ask for a weather report and apparently saying that they were trying to survive in six foot seas, there were reports of a flare being seen and debris was discovered in the area, including birth certificates in a bucket and bottles of water tied together as though someone may have been attempting to put together a survival kit. Ace Kimberly and his teenage daughters bodies have been recovered, the two boys and the yacht are yet to be found. If you google Ace Kimberly you may come across some news reports and more tragic articles on the loss of a family at sea.
