Seguin Island Lighthouse
this is the islands that we are passing thru or going around … there is lots of shoals in this area, and you have to follow the bouys correctly
someone radioed us and said " 30ft Grampian, 30 ft Grampian this is vessel ???, what are they calling us, we said, and who in this area would know a Grampian ?? so we called back, "Vessel calling the Grampian, this is Modaki … we change to a working channel and were told that his vessel passed us and saw white smoke coming from our exhaust and we should check our water intake to the motor … he thanked him and checked and there was no boat that just passed us an NO white smoke coming from the exhaust … so was there another Grampion 30 in the area ???…. Joe checks the oil, water intake every day and he did remove seaweed from the filter a few days ago ….
I saw this dinghy going in circles around and around, and thought what idiot is operating that boat … well just then a "pan pan" went out and the dinghy had no operator, soon 5 small coast guard motor boats raced to the area, and then a 50 ft US Coast Guard boat arrived … we were anchoring near and had a good view of them trying to lasso the helm of the dinghy, it was in an area with no other boats, we thought for sure they would shoot holes in it to make it sink … after about 3/4 hour it was captured and 15 min later it was released from the coast guard and motored past us to a dock
6 hour day 26 km
another fishing boat with this sail on the back
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