The good ship HMS Bounty from the movie is in huricane Sandy and taking on water.

They sailed straight into the hurricane.
They are currently near the eye.

They are just south east of the graveyard of the Atlantic.

What the fuck?

Exactly my thought, why would anyone sail into a storm with a tall ship?

This is the course they took to get where they are.
[link to www.sailwx.info]

Straight into the storm!!!

Coast guard update.
[link to www.uscgnews.com]

17 on board no propulsion.

By the way she is listed as For Sale for 4.6 Million.
Is it an insurance scam?

Bump

Because you were first and I am sick of the attention whore.

LOL its cool, I have already started duplicating my links to that thread.

I guess they are abandoning ship if the coast guard can figure out how to manage it with the weather.
[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Here is the Tall Ship Bounty page for details from the owner.
[link to www.tallshipbounty.org]

She was making for SAINT PETERSBURG,FL and apparently they didn't care about the storm.

She is equipped with two rafts and one life boat.
No radar only standard vhf radio.
[link to wireless2.fcc.gov]

They used the rafts.
[link to www.cbc.ca]

17 crew members were picked up.
[link to rt.com]

If all of the news feeds are correct the HMS Bounty is abandoned and about to find her place in the graveyard of the Atlantic.
May she rest in peace.

Brilliant.
The captain should be shot.

Agreed that ship may not be the original but it was still a piece of history.

now you know why its called the graveyard

Stupid is as stupid does.

If the insurance was through Lloyd's they are in for a fight.
Negligence, if not outright intent will be easy to argue.

Remember however the numbers add up for the financial cost of Sandy 4+million of damages is the HMS Bounty.

My first thought was that they were filming some 'big wave shots' for a movie or something.

Yeah it definitely looks premeditated.

No, he just needs to do the right thing and go down with his ship.

She said her husband, Captain Robin Walbridge, was trying to get around Hurricane Sandy en route to Florida.

"He was just trying to avoid it, skirt it. Skirt through it, skirt around it," McCann said Monday.

"I'm sure he's devastated. Absolutely devastated. But the crew comes first and you have to save the crew."

Just look at the route and ask yourself is that skirting around the storm?

This is absolutely devastating. She was a beautiful ship :(

So true.