On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:27:40 -0400, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

I remember a night of terrible line squalls that wrecked several yachts in
Block Island Salt Harbor.

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Would that have been in the summer of '74 by any chance? I was
halfway between Mystic, CT and BI that year when we got hit by the
mother of all line squalls just after dark.