Posted
1/16/2008 04:09:00 PM
by Douglas
Follow up to the
story about the El Lago coffee import
business:Joe and Terry Butcher's hopes of salvaging their 42-foot sailboat and 10,000 pounds of vacuum-packed Belizean coffee onboard have sunk.
After the Butchers, along with Joe Butcher's brother and their dog, were plucked off their boat in the Gulf of Mexico on New Year's Day, the couple planned to return 200 miles offshore and tow the boat back to their El Lago dock.
The group, aided by a tracking device, headed back out over the weekend but found no signs of their Red Cloud sailboat.
"We went out there and searched. There was no sign of the boat and no coffee," Joe Butcher, 47, said Tuesday.
The Red Cloud was equipped with an emergency positioning radio beacon, which allowed the Butchers to know its location.
The boat and coffee are under about 6,000 feet of water.
Your entire investment is floating in open seas without insurance
and they previously had a shrimp boat
repossessed ?!? Sometimes the word entrepreneur gets thrown around a little too loosely. Have they paid the Coast Guard back for their rescue yet?