'Queen Bee' Boat Found Off Spain's Coast

A nautical nightmare has turned into a story for the ages for Scott Douglas of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

According to the Associated Press, Douglas was thrown off his boat, the Queen Bee, by a wave in 2008. He and his 68-year-old brother-in-law, Rich St. Pierre, were forced to abandoned the boat and swim two hours to shore.

Now, three years later, the barnacle-crusted vessel reportedly has been found.

The Nantucket Island Inquirer reports that Douglas' boat was discovered in Llanes, Spain, over 3,500 miles away. The Queen Bee traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, MSNBC notes, perhaps carried along by the Gulf Stream ocean current.

The Daily Mail reports that, according to Spanish media, the boat was found still equipped with a first-aid kit, radio, and maps of the United States East Coast.

Comments

[sparkybrown7877]

02:30 PM on 01/30/2012

Amazing!

[Aranxa]

03:59 PM on 01/29/2012

Makes those message in a bottle finding stories pretty unimpressive.

[Watching rock grow]

03:44 PM on 01/29/2012

Not the first such boat, not the last either.

[trblmkr]

03:23 PM on 01/29/2012

The video adds very little value to the article. No map of where it was abandonned or where it was found. No video of the boat now, just a still photo. I mean, c'mon!

[David Pawson]

02:18 PM on 01/29/2012

There once was a boat from Nantucket
From the ocean the Spanish did pluck it.
Once caught in a squall
With waves much too tall,
Its owner decided to chuck it.

[Blindstu]

09:44 AM on 01/28/2012

Shades of the Mary Celeste......spooky.

[holyghostie]

07:47 PM on 01/27/2012

It'll cost too much to mail back.

[Alexey Braguine]

10:19 AM on 01/27/2012

The boat that refused to die. :)

[rabit818]

09:24 AM on 01/27/2012

The town can cook a boatload of paella in it.

[altohone]

06:45 AM on 01/27/2012

One was thrown off by a wave, and two forced to abandon it? Poorly written or fishy story.

[Tanya Rafika Anderson]

06:34 AM on 01/27/2012

Why isn't the Spanish Government returning the boat, now that they are aware of its rightful owners?

[kemah]

08:14 AM on 01/27/2012

Maritime salvage law gives ownership to the people who find the boat. Plus if it was insured the insurance company is the legal owner.

[Tiggy]

06:15 AM on 01/27/2012

Talk about staying afloat..lol

[MikeBenj]

05:57 AM on 01/27/2012

How is it possible that nobody seen this boat floating from Mass to Spain? Thats a head scratcher to me...

[Sharp tongue]

06:19 AM on 01/27/2012

GO PATS!!

[MikeBenj]

05:29 AM on 01/29/2012

You got that right, ST!!!!!!!

[xenubarb]

11:50 AM on 01/27/2012

It's a big ocean.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

03:38 AM on 01/28/2012

Really big, I mean mind smackingly big!

[MikeBenj]

05:29 AM on 01/29/2012

Yea, I guess u got me there!!!!

[TonyP53]

05:50 AM on 01/27/2012

you're telling us that for three years nothing out there spotted that boat (planes,radar,any of our sophisticated equipment...) for three years..and it shows up in spain..wow..

[Stickman125]

08:23 AM on 01/29/2012

Its a BIG, BIG ocean with lots of trash. And nobody was looking for it.

[gm3nbud8]

05:49 AM on 01/27/2012

they should be fined for littering