A close call

As many of you know, we had a rather spectacular boat fire on the spit over the weekend: Randy and Victoria Keller had taken Uncle Bogo over to Seattle for the winter, and some friends had kindly offered to give them a ride back to the spit in their inflatable.

Shortly after the  two couples landed and tied off the boat, it burst into flame for reasons still unknown: fire department, coast guard and harbormaster were contacted, and the blackened hull was dragged up onto the beach and eventually carted away by its owner, who fortunately had insurance.

We are all grateful -- given the southerly breezes we had that day -- that the boat was moored on the sound side; had it been tied to the dock it might have taken a few houses with it.  It's a worrisome reminder of how quickly things can go wrong...