Juanita remained onboard, but her owner is missing.


Here’s yet another post about dogs on boats, again courtesy of dog lover Kim Kavin. According to this post from the blog OhMiDog, a rescue vessel found Jaunita, a retreiver mix, aboard the yacht Tafadzwa, which had been adrift off the coast of New Zealand for over two weeks. Her owner disappeared overboard and is lost at sea.


Not to make light of a tragedy, but is someone taking Juanita in for questioning? Did her owner fall overboard or was there some ankle biting involved in a canine quest for freedom? We’ll probably never know.


Written by: Pete McDonald
Pete McDonald is a contributing editor to Power & Motoryacht. Previously, he spent 11 years on the editorial staff of Boating. He has won multiple writing awards and holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.