07/29/2026
Nobody stole this one. A 35-foot center console was under tow behind a larger yacht, coming home from the Bahamas, about 25 miles east of Miami. Heavy seas. The towline parted, the boat went adrift, and it was too rough for the crew to safely reattach it. That's the part nobody plans for. The boat doesn't have to be stolen to be gone. Satellite position reports came in automatically every five minutes. The boat settled into a two-knot northerly drift, and a towing crew ran it down on live tracks, finding it exactly where it was broadcast, 23 nautical miles east of Fort Lauderdale. Intact, undamaged, under eight hours from the moment the line let go. The tow operator put it plainly: it was rough out there, and without those updates they would not have found it.
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