Mark Alan Lovewell
Eighteen-year-old Nicole Level, one of Mexico’s top junior windsurfers from Cancun, is alive today because of the quick thinking of 13-year-old Rasmus Sayre from Vineyard Haven.
The rescue took place last Saturday during a world-class windsurfing championship in Cozumel. The young teenage female sailor was found adrift amid four and five-foot seas, far offshore, without her board and not wearing a life jacket. Mr. Sayre happened to notice her while racing in a tight competition, and without hesitating he left the highly competitive race to make the rescue.
The 295-foot long cutter Eagle will visit Vineyard waters this summer. That news was shared by the executive officer of the nation’s largest working square-rigger, who spoke on Wednesday night before an audience of some 60 people at the Black Dog Tavern.
More than 200 Martha’s Vineyard high school students were winners this past weekend at the 12th annual high school science fair. Though prizes were awarded only for the top exhibitors, every student walked away knowing science can be both fun and rewarding.
If there is great satisfaction in having success at home, there is an even greater reward sharing the gift with others — especially halfway around the world.
In an incident that has reverberated among fishermen up the East Coast, more than 10 tons of illegally caught striped bass were confiscated by environmental police in Maryland over the last two weeks.
Sometime this summer, Vineyarders will have another opportunity to buy freshly-harvested blue mussels from Vineyard Sound. The forecast is even better for the year 2012, if all goes according to plan for Menemsha fishermen Alec Gale and Tim Broderick.
The two men have big plans. They have been working with the town of Chilmark, the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group and others on an experimental blue mussel farm off the north shore of the Vineyard.