After a great weekend on Martha’s Vineyard, my girlfriend and I were returning to Manhattan via the Seastreak New York. We were traveling through the Block Island Sound at the time of the accident. Waves were rolling into Oak Bluffs harbor when we first departed and there were decent swells in the Block Island Sound.
The fast ferry catamaran started bounding over a few swells as the waves seemingly harmlessly washed onto the deck of the bow. Eventually we hit a swell just right as a wave came over the bow, dislodged two life jacket bins, several bicycles, and blew out one of the front windows of the first floor. One half-inch thick window shattered yielding screams and a wave of water into the interior of the boat.
