23-Foot Boat Runs Aground On Reid Island
On Saturday night [June 23] a 23-foot pleasure craft ran aground on Reid Island, to the west of Hamilton Harbour. The boat remained in position until it was removed early this morning.
A Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre spokesperson said it was an accidental grounding, with no reported injuries on board. The boat was removed early this morning [June 25] by Crissons, and it was transported to Dockyard for repairs.
An ‘accidental grounding’???? Really?
nice boat, just goes to show money can buy you a boat, but not common sense. The red arrow on the market clearly points away from the rocks…..looks like ports need to create a new line of revenue called the basic boating license test.
It was at night fellas. Sat night was speciffically dark, so anyone who does not have a lot of boating experience in Bermuda’s waters stands the chance of running aground during the night hours.
Lol sorry but you have to be blind to do this. Honestly if you don’t have a spotlight you shouldn’t own a boat, not just for night trips, what if you go fishing far out and your boat doesn’t start. People need to pay attention, if your new to the waters take it slow. Seriously its almost impossible to miss those 15ft white markers, come on its an f@ckin island not a reef hidden underwater smh.
In my fit of laughter I forgot to say its good to hear there were no injuries, boats are replacable, limbs and lives aren’t, be more careful and easy on the swizzle next time.
@Cum Correct …You are a real arse know it all. I bet you know everything about bermudas waters. If you have ever navigated around bermuda you would know that there are several spots (not including the south shore) where reefs and islands sit low or just below water level during high tide and moon tides. On a dark night at high tide you would never see them….and they are everywhere. Off Docyard, between Spanish Point and Dockyard, off Admiralty house, off Shelley Bay Beach and off Baileys Bay to name a few. But I guess you know it all.
Its not impossible to miss them, but rather almost impossible to see them on a dark night.
but this is an island… with trees on it. The only arse here is the boat captain.
Did anyone else notice how “Seeing Red” spelled the “Come” in “Come Correct” name? LOL LOL LOL
@Seeing Red.. Don’t be so naive, it is obvious this person either doesn’t know the harbor too well or, and more likely to be the case, was full hot! This person was obviously doing a decent speed to sit that boat up on the ISLAND, high and dry like that.
Dummy its called having a million candle power spotlight, if you don’t have one you shouldn’t be out on a boat. You don’t just need them for night time, what if you get stranded out deep during the day, the sun goes down and what use is that signalling mirror to you with no bright light? Oh yea and they also help you see islands! Also no I don’t know all of Bermudas waters, so I use the f@ckin gps on my phone you twat. I’ve only been on the water for maybe 4 years now, never even hit a turtle let alone an island. Like I said, its not like they hit a reef, that I can understand, they’re like giant can openers. They hit an island…in one of the most frequently traveled areas of our water. People drive cruise ships through there you idiot! Most of the areas you mentioned have a giant channel just for those cruise ships, so how in the fuck you land your 23ft boat on top of an island is pretty well beyond me. Finally no, I’m not a know it all, I just prepare for the worst to perform my best
for example having a spotlight on my boat.
apparently, I am led to believe this is boat grounding #2 for the person in question…….
Solution!
If you don’t know or can’t see where you are going go slow.
This boat is high and dry which suggests that it was traveling at speed when it unfortunately lost its way.
Hope that there were no serious injuries!
Pride doesn’t count.
Right on red. MY RIGHT!!!!
Really glad to hear there were no injuries (how were there no injuries?!). Saw this boat up there on Sunday morning and wasn’t sure whether i was allowed to laugh!
I spend more of my time on the water than i do on land and as stupid as this looks i can easily see how it happens. I’ve come dangerously close to some of those unlit marks in the great sound on dark nights. He probably had all sorts of glare coming off his windshield and that red mark is not lit. Probably thought he was giving the green a nice wide berth! At least, i’d like to think he deserves the benefit of the doubt………. Depends on how hot he was………… Considerably i’d have thought!
The person who ran aground was a very experienced boater. They go home via boat from town on a regular basis. I guess in this instance they got it a little wrong.
As a very experienced boater myself, I know that experience and familiarity can make you complacent. I have never hit anything (hard) but have come so close that I’ve momentarily stopped breathing. It’s usually the newer boaters that are the most careful.
A little more speed and he would have cleared that island ala’ James Bond and been home in a jiffy.Hope he/she is ok.
HAHAHA! Yes, glad there were no injuries.
That’s just what I was thinking too. He didn’t just bump the rocks, he ran it right on on de’ rocks. Which means he was ‘clockin”.
Symbolic of Bermuda init?
Not quite ready for the non mariners race this lot lol
Fly. by night.
UUUhhhh, an experianced boater would not be travelling at high speed at night .
An experianced boater who travels at night might want to use a gps chart plotter and radar.
Lucky no one was killed in the boat , or another boat was hit.
There was a similar accident a couple of weeks ago, boat was doing circa 60 MPH and hit a channel markerat night .
Actually mangrove tree those are the worst kinds of boaters. I’ve pulled a lot of people off rocks and mud banks and seen a lot of supposedly ‘experienced’ boaters freak out because they had their nose stuck to a screen instead of looking around them and the electronics have either got it wrong or quit entirely. I was making a passage through the narrows last winter at night in a sailboat and the GPS wanted to put me 30 degrees to starboard and straight onto a reef. There is no substitute for navigating by eye based on landmarks and light patterns.
Ahhhhh…drunk boating my matees!
It’s good to have a chuckle every once in awhile… LMAO I’m sure the owner of the boat is doing the same thing….
All persons should learn the rules of the Bermuda waters before purchasing a boat. This is a 5 knots zone. If motoring at nights,, should been going. Slow.
Not a 5 knot zone.
Not a 5 knot zone.
well at least they can get the bottom done while they are on dry docks….
This is more reason why we need a recreational boater’s license. Last year the same thing happened on World’s End Island. If this person were such an “experienced boater”
how did they end up on the rocks??
If you are not familiar with the area at night, reduce your speed and proceed with caution. Anyone who knows hamilton harbor quite well will know that if you are proceeding in a southerly direction, you will stay on the green side of that channel near Spectacle Island. Whoever said that this guy was an experienced boater needs to think again!!
Glad to hear that the person was not seriously hurt in any way!
Ralph Richardson wrote a good book that is called the Bermuda Boater. Every boater should read it…it will deffinately help prevent boats ending up on an island.
Reading a book about boating is totally different from experience! There is no book out there that’s going to teach you how to be an experienced boater!!