JeffH
12-16-2002, 06:44 PM
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VINALHAVEN (Dec 16, 2002): A 60-foot sailboat broke loose from its mooring in Camden Harbor Saturday night, drifted across Penobscot Bay and fetched up on Murdock Rock off Vinalhaven.
The Elda was still aground Sunday evening, and efforts to remove her from the rock were expected Monday morning, according to Laura Hunsicker, bosuns mate first class at U.S. Coast Guard Station Rockland.
The Coast Guard was called at 7:30 a.m. Sunday and a rescue vessel was dispatched to help. Hunsicker said a lobstermen went on to Murdock Rock to check out the sailboat and found her starboard side caved in.
The boat's owner was not disclosed, but is reported to be in Germany. Prock Marine of Rockland will handle the salvage effort, Hunsicker said.
The coast was hit by strong northeast winds during the night that brought several inches of snow as well as heavy seas.
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For those of you outside the Camden area, the Elda is an old baltic-trader type that had, at some point, been converted into a yacht with a ketch rig. Also at some point the hull was covered with a rather thick layer of fiberglass which, according to some, didn't do the original structure much good. The boat was a bit of a cash cow for Wayfarer Marine, since the owner (who is, in fact, from Germany, and brings over his own crew during the rare periods that the boat actually moves) only used it maybe two weeks a year at most, but still paid to have two coats of varnish on everything, plus moorage and a suspiciously large amount of time sitting in prime dock space, for which I'm sure was clocked at a premium rate. For those of you near Camden, this is the big black boat that never goes anywhere.
Questionable hull structure aside, she was a handsom example of the type, and it's a shame she had to come to such a fate.
Jeff
[ 12-16-2002, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: JeffH ]
VINALHAVEN (Dec 16, 2002): A 60-foot sailboat broke loose from its mooring in Camden Harbor Saturday night, drifted across Penobscot Bay and fetched up on Murdock Rock off Vinalhaven.
The Elda was still aground Sunday evening, and efforts to remove her from the rock were expected Monday morning, according to Laura Hunsicker, bosuns mate first class at U.S. Coast Guard Station Rockland.
The Coast Guard was called at 7:30 a.m. Sunday and a rescue vessel was dispatched to help. Hunsicker said a lobstermen went on to Murdock Rock to check out the sailboat and found her starboard side caved in.
The boat's owner was not disclosed, but is reported to be in Germany. Prock Marine of Rockland will handle the salvage effort, Hunsicker said.
The coast was hit by strong northeast winds during the night that brought several inches of snow as well as heavy seas.
http://midcoast.k2bh.com/pix/News/200212/P25117.jpg
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For those of you outside the Camden area, the Elda is an old baltic-trader type that had, at some point, been converted into a yacht with a ketch rig. Also at some point the hull was covered with a rather thick layer of fiberglass which, according to some, didn't do the original structure much good. The boat was a bit of a cash cow for Wayfarer Marine, since the owner (who is, in fact, from Germany, and brings over his own crew during the rare periods that the boat actually moves) only used it maybe two weeks a year at most, but still paid to have two coats of varnish on everything, plus moorage and a suspiciously large amount of time sitting in prime dock space, for which I'm sure was clocked at a premium rate. For those of you near Camden, this is the big black boat that never goes anywhere.
Questionable hull structure aside, she was a handsom example of the type, and it's a shame she had to come to such a fate.
Jeff
[ 12-16-2002, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: JeffH ]