VIDEO: Sailboat Floats Down Susquehanna
A sailboat anchored in the Susquehanna River had its own plans Thursday.
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A boat coasts down the Susquehanna River.
Annie McLhinney-Cochran
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Steve Coppage captured a sailboat that began drifting down the Susquehanna River Thursday as the flooding began.
Annie McLhinney-Cochran shot some video of the boat coasting downriver from the grounds in front of the Decoy Museum.
Havre de Grace police officers said they saw another vessel floating down the Susquehanna Friday morning.
Billy Berg
11:11 am on Friday, September 9, 2011
This boat is now laying on the shore of Aberdeen Proving Ground in the Locust point area.
Kate Jones
11:26 am on Friday, September 9, 2011
wowww! all the way in Aberdeen.
Bill Lawson
11:57 am on Friday, September 9, 2011
I always wanted a sailboat. Maybe I'll try to rescue from APG. lol
SHAWN HURST
1:04 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
I'm pretty sure that's the sailboat that was up near the Tidewater Grille.
Sean Welsh
1:33 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
I think so, too, Shawn. I shot a photo of it Thursday morning. I was told it began up near the Legion. I saw it about 100 yards south of there near Tidewater, dipping into the current, as if the anchor had gotten lodged. The current likely ripped the anchor from the boat. There was a good deal of debris around it, too. Those trees can do some damage.
Rebecca Fitzgerald
3:25 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
It looked like there was no anchor slack left after the water rose several feet. I noticed it was gathering a debris field on it's upstream side, and was beginning to take on water. Shortly after I noticed the boat off the Legion, it broke loose. It hit a glancing blow on the Lantern Queen - Carroll & Capt. Greg were aboard adjusting lines, saw the break-away-boat and went the LQ's stern to push it off. As it neared they realized how fast it was coming and decided to keep their arms and fingers. :-) The unmanned boat glanced off the stern of the Lantern Queen and bounced off into open water to continue it's adventure.
Captain Steve Weisbrod
9:53 am on Saturday, September 10, 2011
The boat's name is (was) Sinbad. It was on a private mooring just off the American Legion. Flood water like we have is VERY heavy with silt and carries way more power than...mmm.. let's say the water in a swimming pool.. On the Ohio River (where I'm from) boaters have drowned even with a life jacket on because the 'heavy' water would just tumble them and the whirling debris would snag them. So Sinbad never had much of a chance once the debris built up on the mooring lines..... about the same chance a person would have getting permission to salvage it from APG :-)
Tom Fitzpatrick
9:55 am on Saturday, September 10, 2011
During the ice floe we had back in 1994, the floods and ice wiped out the newly built marina at Tome's :Landing (the engineers had the bright idea of anchoring a barge on the north side of the marina as a breakwater)., The Barge, the piers and the few remaining boats went down the river. Some of them turned up at Kent Island.