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Conference unifix::sailing

Title:SAILING
Notice:Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference
Moderator:UNIFIX::BERENS
Created:Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2299
Total number of notes:20724

1660.0. "Trawler snags 40' sailboat" by VAXWRK::WOODBURY () Wed Jan 30 1991 10:22

I heard on the news this morning that a Fishing Trawler returned to Boston this
morning with a 40' Sailboat caught in it's nets.  If I recall correctly they
were about 20 miles off the coast in 280 feet of water.  Apparently they picked
it off the bottom.  It came from Washington DC, but I don't remember the name.  The Coast Guard has no report of a missing or overdue boat.

Strange, makes one wonder what it was doing out there!  Anyone else hear more 
details?  I caught the report on the 6 am news, and the Coast Guard was just 
showing up to look the boat over.

Mark
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1660.1Did it sink or was it sunk?GOLF::FSMITHWed Jan 30 1991 12:487
    Latest report I heard (about 11:00 AM) was that it belonged to someone
    from the greater Boston area (Salem?) and that he had been rescued in a
    dinghy sometime last fall, after getting off a distress call to the
    Coast Guard. What will be interesting is to see a report on why it sunk
    and whether it had all of its gear (electronics, ground tackle, etc.)
    still on board---maybe I'm just too suspicious.