VIDEO: Grounded Avon sailboat successfully returns to the water
The 37-foot sailing vessel Alhambra, which grounded on the beach close to the Avon Pier on Sunday, successfully launched back into the ocean on Wednesday afternoon, December 15.
IFP Contributor Rory Kelleher captured the action along the Avon shoreline on Wednesday, showcasing the final moments before the Alhambra returned to the water.
A small area of the beach was temporarily closed north of the Avon Fishing Pier on Wednesday to allow for the safe removal of the Alhambra, and to conduct any necessary clean-up of the surrounding shoreline.
This is the second vessel to be grounded along Hatteras Island in the past several weeks, as on November 28, a commercial fishing vessel also ran aground along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, near ORV Ramp 48 in Frisco.
On December 7, U.S. Coast Guard personnel also had to assist four fishermen from a disabled fishing vessel, the Bald Eagle II, off the coast of Duck, and work continues to remove the disabled vessel from the northern Outer Banks shoreline.
