"Sunk in 3 minutes. Floated in 5 days. Marooned on Hermit for 3 months...And then, ."

“It was about three o’clock in the afternoon. We were approaching the village—a route we had taken several times returning from various anchorages in the lagoon.”
Leslie

"I felt the boat shudder as we hit, and I heard the awful, loud crunch of the grounding hull. I yelled to Leslie in a panicked voice. Then, to my utter amazement, I saw the floorboards under my feet start to pop up with the rising, intruding seawater.”
Joy