Reply #22: HOLY CRAP!

[Bennyboy]

I just found out something about a boat I used to sail on...

The Nam Sang. a 60 foot sloop that one time won the trans-pacific race and was once owned by Errol Flynn.

Back in the early nineties I had this friend Richard who had this boat. We used to work on it, and he used to take us out in the SF bay and delta to sail it sometimes. When the water came up on the Sac river during the 95 floods, he tried to sail it downstream and sunk it due to some power lines crossing the river at one of the bridges. It is still down there and I have dove on it to see if it was salvageable.

Richard always had this very long elaborate story about how he came about the boat, how it was stolen from the St Francis yacht club, how he stole it back in Australia and it ended up in Sacramento.

It was a really beautiful boat.

But after this thread popped up, I did some research to see if I could find a photo of the Nam Sang. Instead I found this: http://www.kamadofraudforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=507

Seems Richard is a scam artist of the highest order. I haven't seen him since I promoted a benefit for him about a month after the boat sank. I feel like I was taken for quite the ride...