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LURCHING FROM ONE
NEAR DISASTER TO ANOTHER. Warren Miller

Adventures in Boating
Make

A
mediately I will have to place you under BOUT A HALF MILE AWAY
arrest.”
from our house on our island is
Chocolate
On another morning I was headed a very treacherous rock, which
for Friday Harbor in my small boat when at low tide is about six inches out of the
the driver of a tugboat headed right for water and the rest of the time lurks just
the Crane Island rock. I tried to wave under the surface, waiting to rip the bot-
him of but he just kept on coming and tom out of any boat that goes over it. This
waving back until he hit the rock and particular rock removes part of the bot-
ripped of a propeller and a shaft and FRIDAY
tom of four or ive boats every year.

completely ruined his weekend.
There is a myth in this area that if a
Hitting a rock can be very expensive June 6th 2014 private party puts a warning sign of any
for a boat owner and hitting a log is not kind on it then they will be responsible if
cheap either. On one of our 1,000-mile 5:00 - 7:00
someone hits the rock.
round trips to Glacier Bay in Alaska Yesterday, the local whale watch-
a few years ago I hit a log. We limped ing boat captain, with 12 passengers on
ive hours back south on one engine to board, changed his course at the last
Campbell River to assess the damage. By minute and drove over that rock. No one SHOPPING,

the time everything from the log wreck was hurt, but the captain had to sit there DINING &
was ixed, we had spent over $4,000 and until the wee hours of the morning when
were ive days behind schedule. A sched- the tide got high enough again in order to ENTERTAINMENT
ule is something you should never have get his boat hauled of.
on a boat trip of any length.
Two years ago, a U.S. Coast Guard
Going aground is not always expen- boat raced by our dock at about 50 miles
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Boats are not like a motorhome. You Paint, Metal and Mud
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