Last Known Position: Bongo Dong And His Jamming Queens

Jim, Adam, Tom, Duncan & JR

Our last charter in March was eventful... to say the least!! To quote one of our guests, "It all started when five gay guys booked passage on the S/V Stess, and what followed was an unforgettable experience. From the searing Belizean heat...

Duncan with the latest Belizean spring line

Jim & Adam still fitted in a bit of a workout in the soaring temperatures!

scorching sun...

and shifting breezes...

Some dolphins came and joined us while underway

They never get old!!

to storms, high seas and the shipwreck of the Ocean Dreams (Missy!)...

We were moored up for the night at Queens Caye, with a squall coming through. While we were enjoying dinner on board Stess, in passing, JR questioned whether our sister boat, Ocean Dreams, was moving. I calmly replied that it just looked that way, but it was just all the movement of the waves and turning on the mooring. But JR became progressively more insistent, until it became, "Missy!! That boat is moving!!!" As Tadd rushed over to hail them on the radio, it jumped to life with Capt. Nick's voice... "Stess, Stess, Stess... this is Ocean Dreams."

It turned out that, while dealing with a bunch of seasick guests and trying to serve dinner to those people not suffering, OD was bouncing around in the big waves out on an outer mooring. With everything going on they didn't notice when the mooring line gave out from the sea floor and they began drifting. Sadly, they were close to a piece of reef and were on top of it before they knew it... bang!!! The sound of it apparently reverberated throughout the yacht.