Southwinds Magazine, Bahamian Volunteers Save Boats And Lives During Hurricane Dorian

Click on the picture to read more!! Volunteers save boats as well as lives -- The three Bahamian Wooden Racing Sloops from hard-hit Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands survive Hurricane Dorian intact

Article and Photos by Jan Pehrson, Taken from a phone interview of Stafford “Captain Plug” Patterson, former Captain of the Class-A Sloop Abaco Rage and currently a volunteer at the Command Center Desk at Hope Town Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Massive Category 5 Hurricane Dorian came ashore from the open North Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, making landfall at Elbow Cay, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas. Winds were recorded at a sustained 185 mph, gusting to more than 200 mph. Some reports say 225 mph. After the winds came the floods. Hurricane Dorian pushed a 20-plus-foot wall of water onto the island, in the form of storm surge…..