Day 21, August 23, 2009
Sunday!!! No work being done on the boat today. We had a lazy day today. Paul made the pancakes and I did the bacon and we enjoyed banana pancakes and bacon for breakfast. Gill, Sue, and I walked to the drug store and to K-Mart late in the morning while Paul had a nap at home.
We were all sitting around enjoying the quiet Sunday afternoon when we heard this loud bang. We looked up and saw a forty foot ketch bounce off a docked sailboat and planted its bow about a foot into the grass at the end of the slips. Paul and I ran over to see if we could help. We managed to push the boat out of the dirt and warped it to an empty slip nearby. It appears that there was something wrong with his transmission and every time he tried to put it in reverse, the engine would stall and he lost control of the boat. ( That's his story and he's sticking to it.) Surprisingly there was no damage to the ketch but the boat he hit had the stern rail bent, the stern ladder twisted, and the outboard that was on the stern rail was sheared off just leaving the clamping mechanism behind. Paul and I borrowed a grappling hook from one of the boaters and went fishing for the motor. We had it near the surface about a half dozen times but it kept slipping off. One of the fellows from the yard said not to worry that they would hire a diver to get it. We said okay. ( ching-ching and CHING-CHING).
We had an early supper of spaghetti that Sue had made, then got a ride with Jim and Sue Fish from the catamaran Fish Tales downtown for a free concert at the band shell. It was great fun especially for the kids. After we walk back to the marina quite exhausted.
Sunday!!! No work being done on the boat today. We had a lazy day today. Paul made the pancakes and I did the bacon and we enjoyed banana pancakes and bacon for breakfast. Gill, Sue, and I walked to the drug store and to K-Mart late in the morning while Paul had a nap at home.
We were all sitting around enjoying the quiet Sunday afternoon when we heard this loud bang. We looked up and saw a forty foot ketch bounce off a docked sailboat and planted its bow about a foot into the grass at the end of the slips. Paul and I ran over to see if we could help. We managed to push the boat out of the dirt and warped it to an empty slip nearby. It appears that there was something wrong with his transmission and every time he tried to put it in reverse, the engine would stall and he lost control of the boat. ( That's his story and he's sticking to it.) Surprisingly there was no damage to the ketch but the boat he hit had the stern rail bent, the stern ladder twisted, and the outboard that was on the stern rail was sheared off just leaving the clamping mechanism behind. Paul and I borrowed a grappling hook from one of the boaters and went fishing for the motor. We had it near the surface about a half dozen times but it kept slipping off. One of the fellows from the yard said not to worry that they would hire a diver to get it. We said okay. ( ching-ching and CHING-CHING).
We had an early supper of spaghetti that Sue had made, then got a ride with Jim and Sue Fish from the catamaran Fish Tales downtown for a free concert at the band shell. It was great fun especially for the kids. After we walk back to the marina quite exhausted.
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