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| Whale towing yacht out to sea by the anchor line .. . |
The quirkiest story of the week happened just off Fraser Island in Queensland: A whale picked up an anchor line and towed a yacht and its two crew 1.5nm out to sea. The whale, no doubt, was just as alarmed as the crew – with the rope in his mouth, dragging an anchor on one side and a yacht on the other. They finally cut the line and lost both whale and anchor. Can you imagine filling out the insurance claim form for the loss of that anchor? Or the reaction of the insurance assessor?
Lighthouses: I sailed Salty a NY32, with some friends yesterday from Douglaston Queens, NYC, to Noank CT yesterday. We truly appreciated the wonderful lighthouses along the way from Execution Rocks which we passed in the rosy light of the pre-dawn to Little Gull in the gathering gloom of the early evening. I didn’t count all of the lighthouses along the way, but of course for a Long Island Sound sailor their names are legendary and their significance hard to overstate.
Thanks Steve for your collection. Lee