Photo: Jim Powers for the Inquirer and Mirror
On Friday morning, near the entrance to Nantucket harbor at around 10:30 AM, someone made a very bad mistake. The 40′ Concordia yawl, Winnie of Bourne, and the 46′ Swan, Dragon, collided, sending the Concordia yawl to the bottom. The four aboard the 1952 built yawl were rescued from the water by the Coast Guard. The collision remains under investigation. Winnie of Bourne was raised by a crane barge on Sunday. For photographs of the yawl before the collision, click here.
The collision took place just before the start of the nine day Nantucket Race Week, one of the busiest weeks of boat traffic on the island.