Sailboat Sinks at Gorge Harbour
Cortes Currents
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De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - On or around November 22nd, the 30-ish foot wooden sloop Hoy Hoy sank while tied to the Gorge Harbour Public Dock.
Hoy Hoy has made more than one ocean crossing, but most recently belonged to an American who seems to be known locally only as “Earle.” He visited Cortes in 2019 for an extended period, living aboard with his young son on the Gorge Harbour Marina dock. He left the country in the Fall, prepaying four months’ moorage and intending to return in February or March of 2020.
Over the winter of 2019/20, Hoy Hoy took on water slowly but steadily and had to be pumped out regularly by neighbour Rodney Pohl. Then along came a pandemic, and Earle was unable to travel to Canada. Unfortunately, he also didn’t pay any more moorage (after February).