Giant Squid Attacks Boat?

Kevin Stewart forwarded this interesting article. It reports:

"In the summer of 2004, Beth and Ken Cone boarded their Sundeer 60 Eagles Wings in their home port of Waukegan, Illinois, sailed across the Great Lakes and out the St. Lawrence Seaway, and have been cruising the world ever since.
"The latest post on their website, Vancones.org, concerns an episode of underbody sabotage attributed to one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep, the giant squid. While visiting Papeete, Tahiti, the Cones met up with their old cruising pal, Shigeo Kitano, whose progress on a recent passage from the Galopagos to the Marquesas had been impeded by an unknown hindrance somewhere below the waterline of his sloop, Akitsushima II.
"Investigating the findings of another cruiser, who hypothesized that Akitsushima II had been latched onto by a giant squid, the Cones donned scuba gear and inspected the underbody, where they found 'hundreds of strange circular marks on the keel, rudder and hull, where the soft bottom paint had been rubbed away…the marks looked like suction cup marks. But not just any suction cups. Double cups within cups. Like the ones on a squid. A really, really big squid.'"

You can read more about this incident, with plenty of pictures, at Vancones.org.