After we departed for the base we moved slowly out the Marine Cay mooring field and along Beef Island towards the Drake Channel. A power boaters worst nightmare hit us right at the Southeastern tip of Beef Island next to an area called the Bluffs when we lost our Port engine and had no power to the boat.

At this point we were about 300 feet from shore and still experiencing heavy seas since that area is not well protected and we were still hitting the rougher weather from the storm system. My wife (also our captain) attempted to re-start the boat but the controllers were not engaging the engine at all. I made the recommendation to get an anchor down as quickly as possible. I was able to get anchor down but we were still in 70’ of water so we continued to drift back until we obtained a better scope on the anchor.