I thank Ernest and Mike as well as Chris for sending links that provide more information about Charles Holmes and the sinking of the IDLER. I was wrong when I said that the owners of the yacht were among those drowned. All the drowned were female, five tragically in the family of one of the two millionaire brothers who owned the yacht.
Having been second guessed too often over the decades by those sitting comfortably ashore and who were not there, I resist second guessing others, but I have formed a tentative opinion about the sinking of the IDLER which I am going to keep to myself, but which I expect you know.
I will say that I believe the ‘mystery of the Bermuda Triangle’ is superstitious nonsense.
Here are the links:
For the Amazon one, click on the cover of the book to look inside and then Chapter 3.
Mike, who lives in Oriental, North Carolina, adds: I was interested in the boat because I sailed a Lawley yawl from that period when I was a teenager. Did you read where they got “Idler” to the yard and she was in great shape except for a broken bowsprit that happened during the tow to port. Apparently she punched her bow through some other boat and sunk the other boat. Then I read where a schooner “Idler” sunk killing 15 people in 1915. Where?? Diamond Shoal! Right off my coast near Cape Lookout. They mentioned her having a history on the Great Lakes. Can one boat sink twice, sink another boat and drown 21 people total?
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The live-in housemaid is about to take a leave of absence. The next post will come from San Diego. I fly to GANNET tomorrow.
