News Forum - German man’s yacht vanishes from Phuket, Thailand

[Thaiger]

A search is underway to locate ‘Marco Polo’, a German man’s yacht, which mysteriously vanished from a pier in Phuket, southern Thailand, yesterday morning. At 11am, 58 year old Marco Käfer of German nationality found that his eponymous boat was missing from Phuket’s charming Nai Harn Beach in Rawai district. Concerned Käfer was informed by a witness that three people were spotted boarding the yacht and taking it out for a joyride around Phuket’s southern coastal waters at around 8:30am. The yachtless German travelled to Chalong Police Station and reported Marco Polo as stolen at 3.45pm. Police contacted staff at […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Check with his Thai girlfriend who spend time with him the previous night....

[SteveB]

There is no pier in Nai Harn and this guy didn't anchor properly and a gust in the night blew it out to sea. It will turn up in Sumatra probably. This is not the first time this has happened #incompetentskippers

[socal]

12 minutes ago, SteveB said:

There is no pier in Nai Harn and this guy didn't anchor properly and a gust in the night blew it out to sea. It will turn up in Sumatra probably. This is not the first time this has happened #incompetentskippers

That does happen a fair bit. But someone witnessed some ppl boarding it. So it looks like a theft.

Owning a sailboat must be such a hassle.