The boat is a 53 sailboat hull set up for fishing. The mast you see is only for rigging and not sails. The side poles are for the paravines. She drafts 9 feet.
He and his new bride, as of 12-24-17, take off to go winter fishing the first of the year. I warned her he was Hitler on a boat but she still goes. At some point they are out in the gulf headed to the Dutch Harbour area. It is cold and wind is blowing pretty good plus the boat is making ice so they find a bay to pull into.
They dump the hook in 10 fathoms and lay out 150 fathoms of rode hoping to get a little sleep. Nope..........the wind keeps building so he is up on anchor watch. When gusts hit the boat heels enough to dip the rail and she is making 5.5 knots sideways on the GPS. He had an aluminium shelter deck over the back of the boat lighted with LED lights. A really hard gust hits them and there is a lot of banging going on and then the lights go out. He takes a spotlight and looks, no shelter deck
On the shelter deck was an EPERB and the life raft.
The next morning it has calmed down and he can see the Eperb on the beach. He gets as close to the beach as he can with that draft and left over swell. Now the good part
He puts his new bride in a survival suit, ties a line around her, gives her a second line, and has her float into the beach to retrieve the Eperb. The life raft was on an automatic deploy and it never did inflate as far as he can tell. When they got home she looked at me funny when I referred to her as a Lab
So now he needs a new shelter deck. Wants to try building it out of nidacore this time. That is where I come in.