Sad News About My Favorite Trawler

This morning I was checking emails, with my daily cup of coffee and ran across this message, which shed light on something that I did not know about, and was sad to hear....

Here's the email....

Subject: Thanks for the pictures of my dad's boat "Miss Melodie"
Date: 13th September, 2010


Hey, I really appreciate the pictures you've taken of the "Miss Melodie." The boat was owned by my dad, Steve Raynor, and named after my mom. Just recently the boat caught on fire, on the way to Pamlico Sound and was a total loss. Dad and his crew made it off the boat safely. We don't have many pictures of the boat before the fire and I know your pictures will make him happy. If you do have any more pictures of the boat could you post them please. Again, thank you so much for posting those pictures, and for you kind comments about the boat.
Heres a link to the story of the boat fire:

click here for the story

Casey Raynor


Anyway, this trawler was indeed my favorite of all I've photographed... and I had made note of that in several of the sites that I had posted it on.... Casey ran across it on flickr.com....

The story also has pictures of the boat fire...

Here's to Miss Melodie, it's crew, and the Raynor Family.... She was a beauty!

Set Them Free

The boys found a baby sea turtle @ Cape Lookout last time we were there..... let the little guy go shortly afterwards.... They almost look like little wind up bath toys......

Cleaning The Hull / Caught a Sea Turtle

We beached the boat at Cape Lookout (had a long weekend so we sailed out and spent the weekend watching the Hurricane on VHF and having a blast). The boys caught a baby sea turtle, and shortly thereafter set it free..... Here's some pictures.....