boat people:
Reel Deal's owner and President, Marcos Morjain
Ned Bruck, general manager of Reel Deal Yachts
Vince Pyle, owner, V & G Yachtworks
( ) Dekema, Real Deal yachts
(unknown employee on boat, at sea, with Stern)
pertinent facts:
a) The yacht was shipped to The Bahamas, where Smith lived with Stern, on Friday (09FEB07). Stern was reportedly on the boat in Fort Lauderdale when he heard that his girlfriend had been found unconscious in her suite
Wayne Munroe said ****Stern returned to the home on Saturday after sailing from Florida**** on the yacht that he and Smith had recently purchased. He said Smith had christened the boat The Cracker.
Stern was on the 40-foot boat, speaking by phone to the broker who sold it to him, when he got a frantic call telling him that Anna Nicole had collapsed
b) V&G Yachtworks owner Vince Pyle told The Post that one of his workers was ***at sea*** with Stern, giving him a trial run on the used, 10-year-old boat "when Howard got the phone call.
"The minute he got the phone call, Howard said, 'Oh, my God, I need to get back to the dock right away! My wife is in trouble!" Pyle said, quoting his worker.
"He told [the worker] who his wife is. They went back to the docks, and [the employee] helped him off quickly
c) Dekema, who works for Reel Deal yachts in Miami Beach, said Smith had visited the boat earlier in the week. The couple had flown to Florida on Monday to pick up the boat and were scheduled to sail to the Bahamas on Friday.
Instead, Stern sailed the boat home with only Capt. Eric Dickson by his side.
(notes:
1. no Bridgette?
2. 10 hour trip to 'get back to Danilynn quickly'?
3. "36 hours in bed??"
4. ET's "plane ride home" faked?
5. "at sea" cruise/testrun before planned sailback that afternoon with Anna & Co? )
After the boat docked, Stern reclaimed Smith's baby daughter - now the subject of a bitter paternity battle - from a friend who was watching her.
Sterns Bahamian lawyer, Wayne Munroe, said Stern and the baby were still inside the home yesterday.
Where did that info come from because it's substantially different from ...Howard arrivd at the dock at about 1:00 and was about 40 feet from his car, standing on the dock when he got the call within a few minutes.
Some of this is new - but mainly, who is Capt Eric Dickson? Is that the "unnamed man" from the hotel?
you wrote """"""""""""boat people:
Reel Deal's owner and President, Marcos Morjain
Ned Bruck, general manager of Reel Deal Yachts
Vince Pyle, owner, V & G Yachtworks
( ) Dekema, Real Deal yachts
(unknown employee on boat, at sea, with Stern) """"""""""
Could it be this "unknown" dude? Billy Hicks?
I found this in my Star Magazine, March 26th edition:
Regarding Howard on Feb. 8th.... He was "hungover-looking" as he visited the V&G yachtworks in Dania Beach Fla to check on Cracker..blah blah .."I was showing him the propeller shaft when his phone rang" Billy Hicks, a yacht tech who was with Stern at the boatyard tells Star. "His first words were,'Oh my God, are you sure? Are you positive? Don't touch anything until I get there.' then he snapped his phone shut and said 'I gotta leave now.' When I asked him about a repair that needed to be made to the boat, he told me, 'Look I don't have time to deal with that right now. This is an emergency. I gotta go" Hicks says he was fairly unemotional. blah, blah... Hicks and Joe Zammataro, the yachtworks mgr, agree that Stern received the call and left the boatyard, where he'd been for 20 minutes at 1:20p.m. The 6 mile drive to the HardRock would have taken 20 minutes at that time of day. That roughly puts him at the hotel at 1:40..... 5 min. before 911 was called.
Just to put more names on our ever growing list of players!
Thanks Rte66, you're the BEST! :-)