We had agreed, by radio, that they would get into the liferaft and stay tethered to Green Dragon while moving away from the mother ship and hopefully toward us. It was an orange and black bubble of hope and horror. It is essentially an igloo, inflated rubber in the bottom and a fabric tent roof over it, and it made me want to puke just looking at it moving in the water. They had the liferaft deployed behind the boat, and it was a terrifying thing. The boat itself was low in the water, down at the nose, like a dejected donkey. We circled once, assessing the scene, the seas, the situation. There was too much movement, and if we banged into them we could both need rescue. We had been asking ourselves how we intended to do this, and we knew that in these seas we could not come alongside. We approached the boat and turned on our deck lights, to give us some idea of what was going on. They could not figure out where the water was coming in, and they were prepared to abandon ship. We had been in intermittent radio contact with Green Dragon 2, who reported water still rising. We could finally see her, still blessedly lit up with her running lights and masthead. Very close to midnight on the 1st of the year, we approached our target. We were ‘walking’ the boat, standing behind the wheel and moving from foot to foot as the waves threw the boat from side to side, and holding on to whatever handholds we could use as we motored on, through lightning storms on either side of us, and looked anxiously for a boat. However, we’ve been in worse seas, and we know our boat is tough. The wind turned to the north, so we were fighting eight-foot seas with a five- to eight-second period, and everything inside the boat was shaken, not stirred. “How in creation were we going to find a dark boat in the middle of this stormy night?” “Jim and I exchanged worried glances,” Jessica wrote. At the beginning of January, Jessica and her husband Jim were transiting from La Paz to Mazatlan aboard their Tartan 38 Hajime when they got a mayday call, and were told the Mexican Navy was on the way. Readers - On Friday, Jessica Lockfeld began recounting the rescue of the crew of Green Dragon 2.