Don't Blame Us for the Wreck. You Hired the Captain, Boy Scouts Say

Pearson 424 Lost During a Youth Charter in U.S. Virgin Islands

Amokura was lost on Johnson Reef after grounding there on July 17, 2023.

Don’t blame us because you lost your boat, the Boy Scouts of America says, even though we were chartering her for our adventure-at-sea program: The skipper was to blame for the accident, and he was working for you, not us.

The Boy Scouts also advanced a couple of technical arguments …