Researching mystery San Diego Family of 4 whose Sea Dreamer sailboat disappeared south of Hawaii in 1989

[Scott T-Bird]

Strange happenings in Palmyra! Anybody remember a made-for-TV movie with Rachel Ward … called "and the sea will tell". The crime scene was Palmyra. The movie was based on a true story about the murder of a couple from San Diego.

 

[FastOlson]

The OP provides an additional mystery as well, since he seems to say he owns a Catalina model that does not exist.
Ah well, the number of questions seems to increase as we get older... and the answers dwindle. When we were young we thought it might be the other way 'round !

 

[markwbird]

Somehow we know the date and location of departure, the name of the boat, the length of the boat, the destination and names and ages of the people on board but there are no records that any of these people or the boat ever existed at all. The P.O. dismisses the most likely explanation which is that there was never a family missing in the first place and even speculates that they may have been related to Howard Hughes because boats are expensive. He attacks doubters calling them dumb. Classic conspiracy theorist.

 

[Brian D]

He is now over on Cruiser Forums. With the exact same posting.

 

[shemandr]

I had my doubts about that thread. It's hard to believe that someone, even in the 70's, could exist without any record of their existence.
For me it's a matter of the scientific method. That is, if you cannot find any evidence to support your theory, then your assumptions which support your theory aren't true i.e. these people didn't leave from San Diego. Maybe not from the US. Maybe not from Canada. Maybe not from Mexico. Maybe they don't exist. So count me among the stupid - oh, you might already.
Oh, and about that murder of two people. My sister in law was cruising when that event happened, I think. The murderers were apprehended when the brought the boat into another port and the cruising community noted that it was the boat they knew with a quick and dirty paint job. It became a movie, I think. I don't think it's the same event as these four alleged missing people.

 

[Lazy1]

Using the googles with storm stoppers and john you will quickly find a Shark Tank appearance by owner John Smith. I would say that using the name of the company as the user name on a forum with mostly coastal users or "potential customers" is pretty thinly veiled. There are other interesting things too, nothing bad, just interesting.

 

[MikeHoncho]

I had no idea this forum had so many dumb participants. Were you and Brian extras in The Ringer with Johnny Knoxville? That fits.

Says the guy with 6 post all of which are ramblings.....what a JA

 

[senang]

He is now over on Cruiser Forums. With the exact same posting.

Seems to be deleted, I can find it in the search, but no actual posting.

 

[SG]

This is not a new "mystery". If you search on the web you'll see various reports which site notions like the "Curse of Palmyra".

There was a reported search of a boat that supposedly left Palmyra headed for Hawaii with Hughes PLUS FIVE on-board (not four). There was all kinds of speculation of the name of the boat being close to another boat in which there was a double homicide, then the murders dumped the bodies and headed for the U.S.. They were convicted of killing, stealing the boat, and robbing the victims. The name of the murdered Captain of the boat was (as I recall) Mac Hughes.

Coincidence? WTFKs.

Anyway, the whole story falls apart and becomes boinky when you supposedly know the name of the San Diego based family (and can find no record of them) and a U.S. Boat.

I don't know if the poster is just musing, curious, trolling, looking to write a fictional (or speculative) book, or what. Why he would presume that anyone on this board knew anything about the matter that supposedly happened over 30 years ago, I know not.

When the Internet morphed from a doomsday survival artifact to whatever it's become(ing), I guess this is just a bi-product of that. :^))))