Friday, August 28, 2009

Miracle on the Elliot

At least, that's the overblown (or perhaps intentionally ironic; always hard to tell with newspaper quotes) description of this event offered by an SPD Harbor Patrol officer.

We overheard the drama on the radio this morning as we came down to Bremerton from Port Hadlock. Due to our distance from things, the only clear transmissions we heard were those of Sector Seattle, but it sounded as if the responding boat owner, as he is identified in the article, was in fact the local Vessel Assist captain. The Seattle Vessel Assist boat is moored at the base of the ramp that goes to our slip on Q dock, so it would have been pretty well situated to respond, much closer than any police or Coast Guard vessel, assuming the skipper was nearby.

Unrelated, but moderately exciting for us avid Captain Rodriguez followers, we also overheard Remedy for the first time, at nearly the same time.

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