"I should not still be in Barra, but Tuesday afternoon while I was writing in my journal and Scott was reading in the forward V-berth, Raven was slammed into by the 45 foot s/v Blythe Spirit.
She hit the outboard motor mounted on the Port stern rail, damaging the outboard and bending the rail, then took a chunk out of the port side caprail before rubbing along the side and snapping off Raven's port side upper mast shroud and springing the chainplate.
The couple on m/v Adirondack saw him motor into Raven, so he grudgingly admitted fault, gave over his USCG registration number and Mexico liability insurance info, then snuck off in the night.
It took a whole day, and Scott swinging from the mast for two and a half hours in a bosuns chair, to replace the broken shroud and then repair the chainplate."