Boat Excitement

While we were on our sail last Saturday we had a bit of excitement. We were cruising around the Charleston Harbor heading out toward Sullivan's island when Captain Alan got a phone call on his cell phone...a distress call from another captain who was also out sailing and had managed to run aground on a small sandbar out toward the jetties that protect the harbor. We sailed over and spotted them and brought down our sails, sent out Alan's son Nick in the dinghy to attatch a tow line to try to pull the smaller sailboat off the sandbar. After 2-3 hours of attempts trying to manuever a 60 plus foot sailboat against a strong tidal current in shallow waters and ferrying the passengers from the listing sailboat to the Yemaya in the dinghy...Alan was finally able to free the troubled sailboat from the sandbar!
In this photo you can see the sailboat on the left, Nick standing in the middle and the dinghy on the right

More Boat Excitement...

On the next day, Sunday, Robert was so excited to be putting the finishing touches on repairs to the Marathon (Robert's Dad's boat that has been sitting idle in our driveway for 2 years) newly upholstered seats, freshly repaired alternator, bilge, etc...He was planning to take it on a test run and then pick up Alice and I.

And then this happened as he was pulling it out of the driveway...

The axle on the trailer broke as he was coming out...Maybe one day we can enjoy putting our boat in the water!!! Poor Daddy! Last night he picked up a new axle and I am sure that will be the first order of business this weekend!