❖ Westcoasters Honor the BOUNTY and Her Crew ❖

Blakely Islander, Lance Douglas, was visiting Boothbay Harbor Shipyard a few weeks ago and caught up with good ship BOUNTY.
She was in drydock for c. one month for routine maintenance.
A farewell to BOUNTY lost in hurricane Sandy with loss of Captain and one crew.

BOUNTY, 
Boothbay Shipyard, October 2012.
Photograph by Lance Douglas, Blakely Island, WA.

BOUNTY, 
Boothbay Shipyard, October 2012.
Photograph by Lance Douglas, Blakely Island, WA.

Years earlier, BOUNTY on her visit to the calm anchorage of Blind Bay, San Juan Islands, WA., June 1990.
These photographs below were captured then and shared at this sad time by mariner Louellen McCoy, Orcas Island, WA.   

BOUNTY
Blind Bay, San Juan Islands, WA. 
with the Orcas Island Turtle in background.
Photograph by Louellen McCoy©, Orcas Island, WA. June 1990.

BOUNTY June 1990.
Blind Bay anchorage, San Juan Islands, WA.
McCoy Catboat SHARON L on the right.
Photograph by Louellen McCoy©, Orcas Island, WA.

BOUNTY
Photograph by Louellen McCoy©, Orcas Island, WA, June 1990. 

BOUNTY
Photograph by Louellen McCoy ©, Orcas Island, WA, June 1990.

BOUNTY
Anchored Blind Bay, San Juan Archipelago, June 1990.
Foreground, McCoy's SHARON L from Orcas Island.
Photograph by Louellen McCoy©, Orcas Island, WA.