Aground at Ocracoke: Owner's Statement

Cites 'Gilligan's Island'; Thanks Village Residents

(The following statement comes from Scott Pumphrey whose travails at the entrance to Ocracoke Inlet were the basis for the story Whistling Past the Hatteras Graveyard. Pumphrey’s words have been edited only for grammar and spelling with some parenthetical information added for clarity. He lives with his wife Karen in Salisbury, Maryland, and describes h…