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What problems did the narrator face during the night of January 2,1997? |
| Answer» On the evening of the 2nd of January, a giant wave, that first looked like a dark cloud, crashed into the boat, badly damaging it. The giant waves threw the narrator into the water and back into the boat, which resulted in him fracturing his ribs and breaking his teeth. The boat was slowly sinking, as water entered through a hole made by the wave. To add to the chaos, a few essentials like two spare hand pumps, the forestay sail, the jib, the dinghies and the main anchor had been thrown overboard.\xa0Besides the narrator, and his daughter Sue, who had a bump on her head, no one else got hurt during the ordeal. The narrator was able to seal the hole in the boat by screwing a canvas over it and with the help of the two men Larry and Herb, he was successfully able to pump out most of the water by the morning of January 3rd.\xa0 | |