Taking The Ground

Beaching (drying out) using the tides in stunning, mountainous Chilean Patagonia, after hitting a growler (ice).
Schooner Issuma is a 15m/50' Damien II design centerboard (or lifting-keel) steel voyaging schooner. All the ballast on this boat (4.5 tons of lead) is in the centerboard.
Edited with Shotcut, GIMP and Audacity on Linux.
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