My brother- in- law is in Maine. Nancy is going up. Maine is practically our second home so I know the exact beach where former President George H.W. Bush ran his fishing boat “aground” Monday evening.
The president’s boat, Fidelity IV, was returning to the Kennebunk River — our daughter got married at The Breakwater right on that river last September — after an afternoon of fishing off the Ogunquit coast. Ogunquit is south of Kennebunkport, down the coast. The large white structure is The Colony Hotel, where she had her rehearsal dinner.
The Bushes have a family retreat in Kennebunkport at Walker Point.
Not sure who was driving, but the former president apparently had trouble steering through a heavy fog. Oh yes, when they have fog in Kennebunkport, you cannot see anything. And it appears in thick patches. About three p.m. the boat missed the Kennebunk River and landed splat in the middle of the public beach, which, if there was fog, was probably not too crowded. No one injured and once the tide came in, they got the boat off the beach and back to Walker Point.
(Thanks, Craig, for the photos.) Nancy, beware of presidential boats on the beach.
