20 Apr
2019
20 Apr
'19
8:59 p.m.
Saw the first sailboat of the season run aground on the mud flats that just out from Priest Point in Budd Bay in South Puget Sound. See it happen every spring, somebody fails to stay within the channel markers and fails to check the tide table and tries to sail across an open area of water where it is too shallow, particularly at low tide. My tide book indicates it will be 3 to 4 hours before the incoming tide might float the boat free. Bet they’ll be more careful next time. The grounded boat was not a Montgomery. Steve M-15 # 33 5