Vero Beach was a time to rest in one spot for a few days, visit the beach and do some needed maintenance.
We got together for “sundowners” twice with the Geoff, Bunky and Sharon on the boat to which we were rafted, “Party of Two” from Toronto. It is a Catana 41 and makes our boat look very small.
The picture of the ladies in the dingy is Bev, Bunky and Sharon going “trolling” in the harbour for single men for Sharon.
Sharon had an amazing story of how she and her late husband lost their boat off Cape Hatteras. They had been rolled, loosing the masts in the process. After 4 days, the Coast Guard rescued them telling them that they would tow their boat to shore. Once they were on board, however, the story changed. The Coast Guard pronounced the boat as unseaworthy and offered either to sink it or to put a strobe light on it and let it drift. Recognizing that even with a strobe, the boat would be a hazard to navigation, Sharon’s husband said that the better alternative was to sink it. Apparently it took them 900 rounds of heavy machine gun fire to sink this “unseaworthy” steel hulled vessel. Had they known what the Coast Guard was going to do, I don’t think they would have left the vessel but would have waited for calmer weather to jury rig something that would allow them to sail towards shore where they might get a commercial tow into a port.
The sunset photo was actually taken by our friends Wayne and Geraldine of Inspiration when we were all at St Mary’s. They caught up with us at Vero Beach.
We got together for “sundowners” twice with the Geoff, Bunky and Sharon on the boat to which we were rafted, “Party of Two” from Toronto. It is a Catana 41 and makes our boat look very small.
The picture of the ladies in the dingy is Bev, Bunky and Sharon going “trolling” in the harbour for single men for Sharon.
Sharon had an amazing story of how she and her late husband lost their boat off Cape Hatteras. They had been rolled, loosing the masts in the process. After 4 days, the Coast Guard rescued them telling them that they would tow their boat to shore. Once they were on board, however, the story changed. The Coast Guard pronounced the boat as unseaworthy and offered either to sink it or to put a strobe light on it and let it drift. Recognizing that even with a strobe, the boat would be a hazard to navigation, Sharon’s husband said that the better alternative was to sink it. Apparently it took them 900 rounds of heavy machine gun fire to sink this “unseaworthy” steel hulled vessel. Had they known what the Coast Guard was going to do, I don’t think they would have left the vessel but would have waited for calmer weather to jury rig something that would allow them to sail towards shore where they might get a commercial tow into a port.
The sunset photo was actually taken by our friends Wayne and Geraldine of Inspiration when we were all at St Mary’s. They caught up with us at Vero Beach.
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