It was high tide off of Outer Brewster Island last Wednesday as Mike McDevitt’s boat appeared out of the fog, approaching a narrow spot between two large rocks where a wooden raft was piled with debris.
“If I can get that, we’ll get it, OK?” he called out to Laura Ludwig of the Center for Coastal Studies, who was on another boat.
“This is all ledge and rock and very, very steep cliffs, so you can’t really put a boat in anywhere except the two gulchesm, and then only at certain tides,” Ludwig explained…