In fact, the only good news about Kate was that the Coast Guard had taken it upon themselves to quickly circulate her picture, and it was going up in marinas up and down Michigan’s west coast. It wouldn’t be true to describe the crowd of pleasure-boaters as a ‘tight-knit group’—although that would undoubtedly how the news would report it if this particular well struck oil—but all it took was one concerned citizen to make a phone call. Sometimes they got lucky.