Yes indeed, very sad and another chart plotter victim too.
We are heading to Tonga and Fiji from Opua NZ tomorrow with a collection of georeferenced googleearth sat images to help us through the maze of coral and shoals. They will run on the 10 inch Samsung in either OpenCPN, Ozzi Explorer or Memory Map. We have some ratlines to make as well so we get a better view of whats ahead from the spreaders.
I hope their boat gets salvaged and reborn to sail another day!
Good luck on the trip Ambler and remember the Mark one eyeball is still the best instrument to use to avoid the rocks and shoals, (and coral reef in this case)
Many of the official charts in that area are woefully out of date, some dating back to the late 1800's were charted by the Admiralty. It is entirely likely that many of the reefs are not marked or even known about. Just good that there was no loss of life or injury.
