Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sailor in distress



He looks just fine now but a day ago, Jim, was on his last legs...hadn't had water for 3 days and his boat was out of commission. We had left San Carlos for a sail up the coast when we saw a flashing light from the shore..closer inspection found Jim in his camp in desperate need for water. All he wanted at the time was water so we gave him 5 gal and went on our way. We anchored about 1 mile south for the next night. A northerly came through during the night and the seas were very confused. Next morning we see is Jim on the shore waving us down...his boat had broken lose and was on the rocks, could we give him a ride into San Carlos. After some close inspection and letting other boaters know what was up we gave him a ride...told him he would have to take a shower...he started to cry real tears..."a shower, how wonderful, thank you soooo much!" His spirits were at a low (he had been here for 3 months living off the land and sea), now boat and motor were gone. After some food and teaching him some basic sailing he perked up so much so that he decided to give the sailing thing another try and then cleaned our boat bottom!
Good guy and good story

2 comments:

Boomerang said...

It's good to see that you two are still doing good deeds for the downtrodden.
Love you guys,
Chuck and Elaine
"Boomerang"

Minx said...

Wow that is an intense tale. You two are awesome and Jim just found that out for himself!