Odyssey of the Sea Cat
Picture this.
You build a houseboat style boat
.......the one below;
that's originally intended for rivers and lakes. It now needs some finish carpentry work. You and the boat are in Prince Edward Island but the cabinet maker is in Nova Scotia. Your boat's too large to cross by land so you opt for a 3 day crossing of the Atlantic.
This 10 day odyssey begins below.
| Note: Much of the following story info was extracted from
Charlottetown's "The Guardian" newspaper (September 11, 1999) and discussions
with Scotty Millar himself. This story is not fiction. |
At 5:30 am one Thursday morning in 1999 the Sea Cat's crew of seven left Charlottetown. On board are Captain Scotty Millar, 1st Mate Wanda Donovan, his sons Danny and Joel (acting as the navigators), two family friends and a feline mascot...Hi-Tech. The journey was to take them across the Northumberland Strait, through the Strait of Canso, then along the rocky Nova Scotia shoreline to St. Margaret's Bay.
They settled into a steady 7 knot pace, through the Northumberland Strait, fueled up in Pictou, then with the intent of stopping for the night in Ballantyne's Cove, they noticed the weather was starting to kick. Nothing unusual; that's the way it can be on the Atlantic.
However; It wasn't long before all H - - - broke loose. Battling the Atlantic