A brief momemt of panic

There was a sad event on White Bay yesterday. A sailboat coming in for a late afternoon stop must have misjudged the opening in the reef. The ground seas were running yesterday so perhaps he got thrown for just a moment. In any event the boat got hung up on the reef, bobbing up and down doing more and more damage to the hull. Finally another boat was able to pull him off the reef and the pounding surf pushed the boat into the shore near Ivan's. It floundered there for another hour before finally sinking. Search and Rescue was able to drag the boat off the rocks it was on and drag it a ways back into the sea. This morning we saw on our walk that the boat had come to rest on the sand in front of Ivan's. It was still being pounded by the seas.
We found out that those on board were on the second day of their holiday. What a bummer. Boat ruined, all your clothing wet, did you get the passports, where do you stay. Very sad.