A sudden fire totally engulfed the trawler Paw Prints at the dock on Saturday, June 26, 2004.

Dick from Corazón was the big hero jumping into the water and cutting various boat lines that could not be reached from the burning docks so that other boats could be pulled away from the fire. The photo above shows Dick in the water preparing to cut away Inspiration. It was good that there was a northerly at the time because when she burned her dock lines, if we would have had southerlies, she would have come right across to Marina de La Paz. Of course Mary was right there and would have no doubt held it off by hand.  Dick from Corazón, below,  got a line around the bow pulpit and with help from  Carlos Solis from Water Works  was able to pull it over to El Magote where she burned to the waterline. Man, once that fiberglass gets going there is no stopping it. Tom Ireton