Sunday, June 16, 2013

Sunday, June 16 Octopus Islands

On our kayak ride around the islands we saw some raccoons, we think.  They were scavenging on the beach.  At home we only see them at night.  Very cute.

This morning a trawler that was also anchored here left.   A short while later a fellow rows up in his red dinghy and asks for help.  He is on a nice looking trawler named Tangent.  Apparently he is hard aground.  Since there was no one else to help we jumped in.  Fred does not like towing the dinghy so we had to put it up and them pull anchor.  We don’t have a samson post.   We had to rig a tow bridle from our stern cleats.  It took many tries to pull them off the rock.  When they came off the rock the stern came right down into the water and they took on water in the cockpit.  Because their line was wet when I attached it to our line Fred could not get the knot undone.  He released the line so that Tangent could take it in.  Hopefully we will see them down the road to reclaim our 25’ dock line.  They didn’t even say thank you.  I guess they were still embarrassed and in shock.  They just went on their merry way.

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