It's not a gizmo, but it's one heck of a boating story!
January 26, 2012 
In my 40 years of boating I had a boat stolen once. In the middle of the night it was removed from my slip at the West 79th Street Boat Basin. A day later it was found a few miles away floating in the middle of the Hudson River, striped clean. The twin outboard engines and all electronics were gone. The boat had a fair amount of water in it, but it stayed afloat and could be saved.
But that's nothing compared to what happened to two boaters in August, 2008. They were aboard their boat a 26' center console Regulator boat off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. They were trapped in rough water and ended up being tossed off the boat by a giant wave. Fortunately, the two boaters came out of the terrible ordeal quite alive. They were convinced however, that their boat had made its way to the bottom of the sea. But in something that almost seems to be out of a movie script, more than three later, they received an unbelievable call from the Coast Guard. The Spanish Coast Guard found their boat. Quite beaten up and covered with barnacles, it washed up on the Spanish coast. According to MSNBC, Lt. Joe Klinker, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman, said the most likely scenario is that the boat somehow got across the continental shelf and into the Gulf Stream. From there it may drift north off the coast of northern Canada and then east with the North Atlantic currents," Klinker told msnbc.com. He said it's rare, but not unheard of for an object off the coastline of the United States to drift across the Atlantic to Europe. But a boat? "I've never heard of anything like this," Klinker said. Of course, Regulator, the company that made the boat, can sure claim they build rugged boats! And that's a heck of a cruise without using a drip of gas.
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