View from Charisma's cockpit

Several people have asked whether the story about the whale encounter at the mooring at Nuie in true. While I haven’t been able to read the whole story, here’s what we have heard from where it happened.

A whale was cruising through the mooring field and become entangled in one of the moorings (#3, right next to ours). This happened a month or so ago in mid-August. There is actually a part of the bow that was torn from the boat nailed to the wall up in the Nuie Yacht Club.

Seems like the whale just panicked a bit and lashed out to get unstuck. Not surprising but when a creature that big panics, there’s a certain amount of havoc.

There is a juvenille whale in this area and that’s likely the culprit, in fact he may have been the same one that cruised by about 30 yards outside our mooring this evening. A 30 foot, 10 ton teenager testing his capabilities. Hmmm, sounds like me about 30 years ago!