Tramp Steamer Through

Astonishing GRACE

Tramp Freighter through The Caribbean
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I am sound sleeping and after that there is a brilliant light shinning in my eyes. I peer out my little port opening and it would seem that the UFO from the closure scene of "Close Encounters" has landed right outside on the water. We are around forty miles from Cuba and around one hundred miles from our next island, Great Inagua. I get dressed and keep running up top. It is breezy and the oceans are running in 10-16 foot swells. Standing frighteningly close is a 682 foot payload vessel lit up like a little city. Off the opposite side of our pontoon, around fifty yards away, is a little cruising yacht in trouble.

The commander got the SOS at 9:35 P.M., inside ten minutes he saw the pain flare bend high into the night sky and adjusted course to help. Forty five minutes after the fact an extensive load tanker enrolled in Oslo, touches base on the scene and gives a lee to the upset yacht. The sailboat is a 37 foot sloop, attaching to windward enroute to Puerto Plata from Manzanillo. There are four individuals on board and the Captain has broken his shoulder. The chain plates have come free from the harsh oceans beating the pontoon. The pole is in risk of falling. They can't raise any sails and their little motor is not sufficiently solid to conquer the waves and twist to permit them to continue. We are a 247 foot tramp steamer enroute from Trinidad to Freeport in the Bahamas.

I go up over the extension on what is called Monkey Island and I have a flawless perspective. I can hear the radio. The chief of the sloop is blown a gasket. You can tell by his manner of speaking he is almost certain he won't live to see the sunrise. Our skipper guides him to engine close by and we will take the harmed party installed yet as he tries to approach, the sea swells increment and cause his pontoon to crush into the side of our own. As his 37 foot fiberglass sailboat slides at the edge of our steel frame it makes a sickening sound and afterward the behind stay, which is the remaining wire holding up his pole, gets got on our forward upper payload deck and starts to pull back like a bow being extended to the limit.