carwreck.com: around Boston harbor...

I am broken and battered because at work today I got beat up. Sort of. The fight started at about 0850 when I got underway for a 36 foot Hinckley picnic launch which was disabled twenty-eight miles northeast of Boston at Stellwagon Bank. We fought our way against the wind and seas for an hour and fifty minutes before arriving at the stranded boat. For nearly two hours we fought, but she fought back just as hard. She managed to shake everything loose in the boat. She broke off one of our radio antennas. Then she managed to throw me clear across the cabin of the towboat and nearly dislocate my shoulder. The canvas door to the cabin saved me from hitting my head on the deck but gave up its own live in the process; I'm not sure what my ankle hit. Nonetheless we arrived on-scene and passed over the towline to the patient delivery captain and towed the hapless boater to a repair facility.

It was a long fight, just over six hours, and there were no clear winners. You could argue that by making it safely home, I was the winner, but I opt to view each day at sea more of a draw. We both come out as winners because we each gave it our best shot.

hrm... nice story... but i think there must be another casualty that we are not hearing about... not that i really know anything but... your ankle, your shoulder... it seems like there should be another injured body part... these things do happen in three's don't they?

don't hold out now!

Any other injuries I received "taint" none of your business. ;-)

Interesting story. Too bad you guys don't have any REAL capable boats like a retired 44'.

I'm looking forward to sailing YEAR ROUND up there in the Coronado 15. You game? I gotta find my drysuit, hood and gloves, though. I guess you'd also like me to replace the trap-wires, too, huh?

Seeya in JUL-AUG!!!