Shipwrecked

One day a storm blew into the Southern Oregon coast. In Gold Beach the wind blew the waves onto shore. In the midst of the storm a man and his sailboat fought to stay afloat. The man tried to point the boat up the Rogue River to safety but the wind blew the boat South and he was forced to jump overboard. In the morning the boat had been washed on shore.



It was the talk of the town for the weeks that followed as it lay stranded on the sandy banks of Gold Beach. Every day tourists and townies alike visited the boat to take pictures to send home to their families.




The town gossiped about the future of the boat and pondered over how the owner would ever get it off of the beach. The boat had remained relatively undamaged from the storm and its crash landing, but getting it off of the beach would be a challenge. No one saw the men that took the sailboat away, one day it was simply gone. All that remained were the old papers with its picture on the cover and gouges in the sand.