Photos of the Day: Schoonmaker Wreck

Saturday night’s northerly winds played the usual havoc with the anchored boats in Richardson Bay, sending this abandoned woodie smack onto Schoonmaker Point Marina’s beach. How the untended 30-footer managed to make its way into the lagoon without damaging docks or other boats is a mystery and, frankly, a bit of a miracle.

As the ebbing tide left the boat high and dry, beachgoers investigated the wreck and quickly discovered how it got loose. The frayed mooring line in the shot above tells the story. It’s heartbreaking to see lovely boats like this come to such a sad end.