That was about 10 years ago. Watching it get towed into Wayfarer, the only thing above water was the actual cabintop. What I recall most was someone at the docks saying, "Oh my god, it will never be the same",...

Then the manager at Wayfarers words as seaweed and mud came gushing out the ports as the travel lift slowly brought it up, "Don't worry, she'll be beautiful again".

And she was! And is today. You'd never know a professional captain ran her up on Curtis Island.

The Graves episode was a J 47(a delivery captain). Those two groundings kept Wayfarer working over a few long hard winters.

Up and down the coast of Maine, when VHF maydays report a big boat has hit the rocks, boatyards start rubbing their hands together whispering, "pick me, please pick me,...".

They been doing that for a hundred years, at least.