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 as

the only survivor of an encounter between a Norwegian coastal

freighter and a German sub-marine. After the Second World War,

the lifeboat re-starts life as a two-masted sailing yacht. The yacht is

haunted and the ghost of a girl that perished in the boat drives off

anybody that shows an interest until Morgan Turbot acquires her. In

2009, Morgan and a female passenger are en route from Townsville

to Bowen when they encounter a strange electrical storm. Just

before the storm hits, Morgan sees his friend, Harry Knott, coming

towards him in a motor launch, he waves at him but the roiling mist

associated with the natural phenomenon, swallows them and they

lose sight of each other. Time stands still but then things go back to

normal, the mist melts away, and the yacht sails on.

Four years later another yachty friend of Harry Knott loses his yacht

under similar circumstances and Harry investigates. Meanwhile

Morgan Turbot records his experiences.