Beached Sailboat

Well we've had another couple of days of lots of rain and kind of generally crappy weather. I actually heard that in the past 2 weeks we've had 20% of our ANNUAL rainfall! As a result it's been pretty slow around the shop - today I was pretty well over it so I decided to close about an hour early. When I went outside there was a rainbow so I decided to drive up to the beach to get a pic or two. As soon as I drove onto the beach a Park Service officer drove right past me with his lights & siren on and I looked up the beach and saw a sailboat on the beach! I have no idea what happened but the boat was beached and getting beat up in the shorebreak with a guy standing on deck at the stern. I drove up to it and there were a bunch of people, some Park Service, Police, Coast Guard all standing there I guess making a plan to get the guy off the boat. It didn't take too long but it was a little bit of a challenge because of the short period waves and fast moving current. I'm glad that it appears that there were no injuries but I don't know what the fate of the man's boat will be so I hope he doesn't lose it entirely. Enjoy the photos and be careful boating around here - it's not nicknamed The Graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing!