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Sailboat sunk by whale near Hoonah - Alaska Dispatch

by NewsReader 08-01-2011

Sailboat sunk by whale near Hoonah
Alaska Dispatch
The Juneau Empire had a chance to talk to Ken Pierce of Jonestown, Maine, whose 34-foot fiberglass-hulled sailboat "Ishmael" was sunk by a breaching humpback whale near Hoonah early this July. "(The whale) hit us directly underneath, bending the keel ...

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Very ironic, with the name of the boat.

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