RedactedNarrative: On September 14, 2016 at 9:30 am S/V RHAPSODY,  NY 2189 FG, a 2005 41’ Auxiliary sailboat was sailing 1NM southeast of Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island Sound when it began taking on water from a failed positive through hole seal on the propeller shaft. 
  
  Passenger while in the process of making emergency preparations severed the tip of one of her fingers after her finger was slammed in a door. A USCG vessel out of Station Castle Hill assisted in de-watering the vessel.   A Little Compton Fire Boat assisted with the injured. The vessel was towed into Portsmouth and hauled out for repairs. Damages were estimated at $2000.00.
  