Off Topic Port Bruce sailboat sinking! Rough weather reminder.

steve A

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Port Bruce mid morning rescue. Not to much info at this point. Under estimated the depth of the channel with the lake swells. Owners all fine but boat ripped apart.
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Sad to see happen. Likely very experienced sailors, just ran aground.
 
There's a really shallow spot just south of the pier gate from rocks getting washed over the pier from the west side when it's really rough with strong SW or W winds. One of the guys the other day told me when he was throwing his minnow net out in that area the top of his minnow net was still out of the water when it settled on the bottom before he pulled it up again. 😯

This photo posted by Dan Macsween in the facebook group I'm part of shows some of the damage. Apparently she has that kind of damage from one side of the stern to the other. Chuck Smith has posted that salvage has been arranged and he's asking people to stay away for their own safety and that of his crews while they remove it
 

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Trevor M said:
There's a really shallow spot just south of the pier gate from rocks getting washed over the pier from the west side when it's really rough with strong SW or W winds. One of the guys the other day told me when he was throwing his minnow net out in that area the top of his minnow net was still out of the water when it settled on the bottom before he pulled it up again. 😯

This photo posted by Dan Macsween in the facebook group I'm part of shows some of the damage. Apparently she has that kind of damage from one side of the stern to the other. Chuck Smith has posted that salvage has been arranged and he's asking people to stay away for their own safety and that of his crews while they remove it
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Draft5.50 ft (1.68 m)
Nice boat, not sure if it’s repairable.
 
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stomp said:
Hindsight is 20/20, but why tie up at the mouth and not move it farther upstream?https://london.ctvnews.ca/sailboat-...e-two-people-safely-make-it-to-land-1.5447135
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even thou it was ruff out at mouth ,that boat would never go further up stream, yesterday ,it was a strange event ,on shore wind and the weather dropped ,,,normally its a heavy north wind to do that here, the other side of lake had some funny stuff happen to i ve read to other places,, full moon, tides ,,who no' s any more,, might have been covid
 
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As a former racing sailor with 30+ years skippering my own boat lake Erie can be really un forgiving and I don't know why he was out there in those conditions in the first place but what ever the conditions there is a LOT better harbors to shelter when it's bad,,,, from past experience I'd bet he had a freaked out "crewperson" telling him, "GET ME OFF THIS BOAT",,,,.

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