Yacht stolen from P.G. harbor

Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed… or in the case of sailors, it doesn’t pay to get off your boat. That’s the way one Danish mariner is feeling today as he lost not one vessel, but two. The tourist, 58 year old Kenrich Enemark, was living aboard his 38 foot yacht, the “Julie Four” and had it anchored in front of Punta Gorda. On Thursday evening he went ashore aboard the yacht’s dinghy, which is a tiny skiff powered by a four horsepower outboard engine. When Enemark decided to head back to his floating home around 11:15 he noticed that the dingy was no longer moored where he had left it at the P.G. municipal pier. Such thefts are not uncommon in Belize and the disgruntled captain found another boat to take him out to the yacht where he could lick his wounds and plan an early morning search for the missing dinghy. The Dane’s luck was not improving, however, and when he got out to where the “Julie Four” was supposed to be anchored he discovered that the 38 footer had also managed to disappear… perhaps into Belize’s version of the Bermuda triangle. Police are investigating the theft of the two boats, whose estimated value is almost one hundred thousand dollars. This afternoon Enemark was trying to organize a fast skiff to carry police on a hunt for the missing vessels, which are rumored to be in the area of Punta Negra.