Roller blades and skateboards are strewn about on deck with the boat in port a few days. “It was completely unseaworthy,” George says.īack in Oriental and it’s a few days before Grace’s ninth birthday.

The family already faced challenges getting materials for a holed, mastless schooner in the Bahamas. Luckily the Jordans checked into the Bahamas just a few days before travel restrictions hit. It was also the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Beth convinced Anna and George to sail down and at least have a look.īeth drew them a map of the harbor on the other side of the island, directing them to the schooner’s location between the different wrecks and ongoing clean up efforts, now well into 2020. But it was more fantasy than reality until a dear friend and fellow cruiser Beth Browne saw Sarah G get wrecked in hurricane Dorian. It was their second time sailing to the Bahamas since they’d cast off from Cape Cod when Grace was 4, and Eleanor only 15 months.Īfter two years as a family of four on the Catalina, they’d begun musing about a bigger boat. George and Anna also had very little money, and not much else to their names other than the 31 foot Catalina they were living and cruising aboard. They planned to scuttle the boat after that. That was all that was left of any value, according to the salvager.

A salvage company was going to rip out the 80-horsepower Perkins 4.236 marine diesel engine and accompanying Westerbeke generator. The three-masted schooner had no masts and there was a giant hole in the deck from port to starboard as if a meteor had landed amidships. Anna points out part of the decor: a sticker collection.īullet holes were the least of the Sarah G’s worries.

Novel the shipping news