The article below is about my great uncle and a great man. It is strange that his boat has never been found. We has a family have never healed because we have never be able to put my uncle to rest. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32670-2005Mar13.html
Tangier Island Aches for Lost Waterman
Concern for Cats Might Have Put Pet Lover on Bay in Violent Storm, Friends and Family Surmise
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 14, 2005; Page B01
Not long after James Donald Crockett picked up his gray tabby, Spottie, at the veterinarian Tuesday morning, the barometric pressure over the Chesapeake Bay began to plummet.
By noon, as waves lapped Crockett's 40-foot boat at the dock in Crisfield, Md., the temperature had plunged 23 degrees in seven hours. Icy gusts tore over the bay from the northwest, and the National Weather Service put out a gale warning.
Tangier Island, Va., in the Chesapeake Bay, home to crabbers and oystermen for more than two centuries, is a close-knit community of nearly 700 people. (Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post)
Crockett, 77, had 11 miles to go to reach his home on Tangier Island, Va., a route he'd traveled countless times. His sons had begged him not to make the errand to the mainland that morning because, as they say on Tangier, "it speaks of bad weather." But Spottie needed to be spayed, and, as one friend said of Crockett, "He was a good waterman, and he wasn't afraid of the water."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32670-2005Mar13.html
Tangier Island Aches for Lost Waterman
Concern for Cats Might Have Put Pet Lover on Bay in Violent Storm, Friends and Family Surmise
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 14, 2005; Page B01
Not long after James Donald Crockett picked up his gray tabby, Spottie, at the veterinarian Tuesday morning, the barometric pressure over the Chesapeake Bay began to plummet.
By noon, as waves lapped Crockett's 40-foot boat at the dock in Crisfield, Md., the temperature had plunged 23 degrees in seven hours. Icy gusts tore over the bay from the northwest, and the National Weather Service put out a gale warning.
Tangier Island, Va., in the Chesapeake Bay, home to crabbers and oystermen for more than two centuries, is a close-knit community of nearly 700 people. (Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post)
Crockett, 77, had 11 miles to go to reach his home on Tangier Island, Va., a route he'd traveled countless times. His sons had begged him not to make the errand to the mainland that morning because, as they say on Tangier, "it speaks of bad weather." But Spottie needed to be spayed, and, as one friend said of Crockett, "He was a good waterman, and he wasn't afraid of the water."
