GREGG HERRINGTON, Columbian
The Columbian
08-27-2003
As his capsized fishing boat slipped into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday morning, Allen Moore of Vancouver struggled to hang on with one hand while holding his brother-in-law's head above water with the other.
A few feet away, his nephew, Jim Governor of La Center, also was clinging to the 21-foot Glasply, bow-up and nearly vertical in the water.
It had all happened so fast.
Moore had been piloting the boat toward the south jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River when a 10-foot-plus wave attacked from the side. There wasn't time to steer into the wave to avoid rolling.
"It flipped us over," Moore, a 71-year-old retired ...

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