Photo Sequence of Ocean City Lifeguard Boat Blown to Strathmere

Strathmere resident and Patch reader Ken Weaver sent this sequence of an Ocean City Beach Patrol rescue -- of one of their own lifeguard boats.

The Van Duyne surf boat was blown by Sunday night's storm almost a mile from where it started -- on the last guarded beach in Ocean City just south of the 59th Street Pier. It ended up on a sandbar in the Strathmere Bay.

The sequence shows Ocean City Beach Patrol members flipping the boat upright, dumping the water out on the sandbar and towing it back home.

Ocean City Beach Patrol Operations Director Tom Mullineaux said Monday that the storm winds pushed the boat out into the ocean then rapidly down to Strathmere.