coreboarder wrote:
based on my experience with Lake Superior I can guess what happened. They probably had the boat pulled well up on the beach, into the beach grass, but a big storm kicked the waves way up. You can see the erosion in the dune the boat is resting against in the pic, probably caused by a similar storm. Owner wasn't around, or wasn't paying attention as the waves/swell reached the boat and took her away. I had the same thing happen to my 14 a few years ago, accept I had a rope on mine tied to a tree on the hillside 20 ft above the lake and about 50 ft further inland. My boat was parked well into the beach grass, higher than the highest I'd ever seen the lake reach. Monster storm came and my boat ended up sideways (but upright!) even higher up on my property 30-40ft down the beach. It swung like a pendulum on the rope I had tied to a tree (I was out of town when it happened).
This is most likely what happened. I was searching Google earth and I think I spotted it on the beach a few hundred feet from where it was found.
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