Chilling Story to Be Retold

HULL – A true story about two fishing vessels facing a deadly storm on Georges Bank in 1980 will be retold Thursday at the Hull Lifesaving Museum.

At 7 p.m., author Michael J. Tougias will make a slide presentation centered on his book “Fatal Forecast” (“An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea”).

The author focuses on the crews of the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever and why they set out for the Georges Bank fishing grounds expecting typical fall weather.

They ran into a hurricane-force storm because the National Weather Service’s lone weather buoy on Georges Bank was malfunctioning, Tougias explains.

Gary Brown, a 30-year-old Plymouth lobsterman, was among four men who lost their lives that day. One fisherman survived by hanging onto an inflatable life raft for more than 50 hours, the author recounts.

The museum is at 1117 Nantasket Ave. Admission is $3 for members and $5 for non-members.

Originally published by The Patriot Ledger.

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