Ideas from Mark Stout

Whatever became of The Bounty?  Not the original HMS Bounty . We know that was burned and sank at Pitcarin Island by the mutineers.  The Brigantine Yankee crew even found its anchor. Two replica's were later built. One for the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Marlon Brandon, and other for the Mel Gibson version.  Apparently filmmakers modified another ship, "The Lily" for the 1935 Clark Gable version . It's the one built for the Mel Gibson movie I'm interested in. I had enjoyed the Norton & Hall trilogy of books on the mutiny as a teen. I'd always hoped to visit the Brando Bounty when it was on the US East Coast but never did. It went down in a Hurricane Sandy in 2012. I did get an opportunity to cruise on the Gibson film's replica when I visited Sydney, Australia in 1996.  In the years after, I kept tabs on it. It moved to Hong Kong and was giving tours there. Then the mystery began. It disappeared. The company that owned it simply s...