Sianksey'S Snake

Morgan Turbot is the present owner of a thirty-six feet long lifeboat.This lifeboat has a mysterious past and fi rst comes to our notice asthe only survivor of an encounter between a Norwegian coastalfreighter and a German sub-marine. After the Second World War,the lifeboat re-starts life as a two-masted sailing yacht. The yacht ishaunted and the ghost of a girl that perished in the boat drives offanybody that shows an interest until Morgan Turbot acquires her. In2009, Morgan and a female passenger are en route from Townsvilleto Bowen when they encounter a strange electrical storm. Justbefore the storm hits, Morgan sees his friend, Harry Knott, comingtowards him in a motor launch, he waves at him but the roiling mistassociated with the natural phenomenon, swallows them and theylose sight of each other. Time stands still but then things go back tonormal, the mist melts away, and the yacht sails on.Four years later another yachty friend of Harry Knott loses his yachtunder similar circumstances and Harry investigates. MeanwhileMorgan Turbot records his experiences.