Disaster, Setbacks, and Perseverance
On September 2, 2025, we received news that broke our hearts.
Some Tuesday is my pride and joy. It's my life life's dream to be able to have this boat, and chartering her out to customers helped me pay for it. It was the only way that I was able to pay for it.
Unfortunately, a charter customer took her out on the weekend of August 30, 2025 and made a series of disastrous mistakes. They seem to have been doing some large scale fishing operation, which is NOT what Some Tuesday is for. They anchored overnight in 70 feet of water on the far side of Catalina Island, despite Some Tuesday only being equipped to anchor in about 35 feet of water, and got the anchor stuck on something on the seafloor.
When they tried to pull up the anchor and found that it was stuck, they did something so reckless and stupid, I can't even imaging what it was. But, whatever they did applied enough force to the bow to fully snap it off, breaking the box and the trampolines, as well as losing the anchor and 40 ft of anchor chain.
I was devastated when I heard the news and saw the photos, and I had lots of questions. Is the damage structural? Are we going to need parts from Lagoon in France? How long is the repair going to take? And, most importantly, are we still going to be able to set off on our circumnavigation on schedule?
Those few days that I spent with all those questions were torture. But, here's the good news: The damage is not structural. It's a major fiberglass repair job, but there's no structural damage that would take this repair into six figures. Because the damage isn't structural, it will be done pretty quickly, and there will be no setback to our launch date October.
This is just the first of what will likely be many set backs and challenges over the next 5 years. As they says, "BOAT stand for Break Our Another Thousand." But this is what we signed up for. This is boating. This is what we love and we're ready to persevere over anything the next 5 years bring.
P.S. A note for the reader: Be respectful of other people and, as an extension, of their things. Never forget the golden rule.