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Then the horrible sound of ripping fiberglass.

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The boat continues its roll and the floor becomes the floor

again as OUR MAN gets thrown around like a rag doll.

The boat somewhat stabilizes and before it heads down the

next wave OUR MAN goes to the skylight porthole to look up

and sees through the early morning light to see what the hell

just happened.

He rushes over to a side window and sees a few of the stays

(cables that hold up the mast) have ripped from the deck and

are whipping around.

Here comes another massive wave. He braces himself.

It’s not as big but the boat is hurtling down the face and

sounds as though it may start coming apart.

OUR MAN must get out and install the sea anchor.

He forgoes putting on any foul weather gear and goes over to

the steps.

EXT. BOAT - COCKPIT - POV OF DAMAGED DECK - DAWN

As he comes up the steps and into the cockpit the light of

the new day lets him see the size and ferocity of the waves

for the first time. The rain and wind have somewhat died down

but the waves are beyond belief.

Trying not to lock up completely from fear OUR MAN makes his

way to the back of the cockpit, attaches the clip of the sea

anchor to the back of the boat and then, just as he lets the

cloth parachute go into the water, a massive wave builds

behind the boat.

A second smaller cross wave comes and pushes the boat

sideways and it begins a death-roll.

EXT. BOAT - COCKPIT/OCEAN

The cockpit area is now underwater and OUR MAN is doing all

he can to stay attached to the boat. He did not attach the

storm harness this time so he is free floating into the

ocean.

The boat does a massive full flip under the water and then a

noise like nothing else we have heard up to this point. It’s

snapping metal combined with the deep thunder of a fifty foot

wave crashing around him.

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The boat starts in on a second flip and miraculously he is

scooped back up into the cockpit by total luck as the boat

rights itself in the trough of the wave.

OUR MAN looks around and can’t believe that he is back on the

boat.

He immediately grabs the clip of his storm harness and clips

it to the boat.

Then he looks around.

The mast of the boat is snapped like a toothpick. He looks

behind him and sees the remains of the mast sinking.

He looks at the contact points where the mast was connected

to the deck of the boat and sees that at each point a hole in

the deck has been ripped open.

Then he looks down at the connection point and sees that the

sea anchor is still connected and appears to now be working.

With each oncoming wave the boat is now held back by the

anchor and it doesn’t speed down the face of the wave.

INT. BOAT

OUR MAN comes down the steps of the cabin and closes the

hatch behind him. Sea water is now dripping and at times

pouring in through the holes ripped in the hull and deck of

the boat.

OUR MAN looks around the cabin and starts to prepare for the

possibility that he may have to abandon ship.

His movements around the cabin are made very difficult by

each new wave throwing the boat about.

After collecting a few things another massive wave comes and

the sea anchor seems to snap, because the boat is suddenly

jolted forward.

This causes OUR MAN to be thrown across the cabin and against

the wall in the front V sleeping berth from the opening shot.

He is knocked unconscious and blood starts flowing from his

head.

FADE TO BLACK.

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INT. BOAT - CABIN

OUR MAN comes to and he is laying in a significant pool of

blood. He is up on the raised bunk but every so often a

splash of water is heard.

His eyes open and he now sees that the boat is officially

sinking.

He gets up, but he is pretty messed up so he is not in the

hurry he should be in.

There is a gash on his forehead.

The water is now a solid four feet deep in the cabin.

He wades through the main cabin and the storm seems to be

calming down some, the boat isn’t quite flying around like it

was and the noise has laid off some.

OUR MAN methodically goes to the food closet and grabs what

he can.

Water is now just pouring in through an enlarged gash on the

side of the deck.

He goes over and pulls out the large liferaft case from the

closet and pulls it through the water and tries with all the

effort he can muster to get it up onto the deck.

EXT. BOAT - DECK/OCEAN

OUR MAN struggles to get the liferaft over towards the edge

of the cockpit.

He takes a large security clip and attaches the liferaft to

the boat.

He then hurls it over the edge into the water. The second it

hits the water the raft explodes open and fills with air

exactly as it was designed to do.

The waves and wind have definitely lessened in intensity but

are still making this transfer from the boat to the raft an

extremely dangerous maneuver.

OUR MAN takes one last look around at his sinking ship.

He takes the sea anchor clip from the hook on the back of the

boat and clips it to the liferaft.

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He looks out into the ocean and does his best to time his

leap with the oncoming waves and finally dives into the

opening of the raft.

INT. LIFERAFT

He lets out a good 25 yards of line and looks out from the

relative safety of the liferaft back towards his boat. He is

about to disconnect the rope that connects him to the boat

but he looks around the raft at the few items he was able to

bring with him in the rush. It was not much.

He looks out again at the boat and it is riding very low in

the water but does not seem to be sinking.

As he turns around and lays down to think about what to do

next he closes his eyes and falls asleep.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN:

EXT. BOAT - LIFERAFT - MORNING

OUR MAN wakes up and the raft is very calm. The storm has

passed and the waves have almost completely settled.

It is quiet.

He suddenly realizes he never unhooked himself from the boat.

He turns and looks out through the entrance flap and his boat

is still floating... barely. The water has come almost up to

the deck. He’s not quite sure how it is still staying above

the surface.

He looks around the raft and decides he needs to get back

into the boat as he may be here for awhile.

He begins pulling in the rope that is still connecting him to

the boat.

The raft bumps up against the side of the boat and as he

looks into the cabin he sees that the water is almost all the

way up to the ceiling of the cabin.

EXT. BOAT - COCKPIT

He climbs into the submerged cockpit and makes his way down

into the cabin.

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INT. BOAT - CABIN

There is just about a foot of air at the top of the cabin as

the water has taken over everything else. OUR MAN starts

going around the boat and collecting things that could be

useful. Each time he goes for a new item he has to dive down

below the water and search for it.

Remaining canned and packaged foods.

An extra water jug.

Charts.

The Introduction to Celestial Navigation book.

A sextant.

An expandable boat hook.

A small portable gas camping stove.

Clothes.

A first-aid kit.

As he loads the first aid kit into the bag he remembers the

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