Mutiny boat found off Bowen

Insurance News/Sail-World Cruising

Air Apparent, the small yacht abandoned off the north coast of New Zealand last year when the crew mutinied and set off a distress beacon, has been recovered by fishermen off Bowen. It has taken more than a year to sail the distance alone.

The yacht was abandoned during a coastal trip in April last year when inexperienced crewmen grew alarmed in rising seas and set off the beacon in defiance of owner/skipper.

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