The last great weed smuggler, Harvey Prager, and three crew members were sailing a 61-foot steel-hull sailboat from the Yucatan Channel to Key West, Florida, when the winds turned against them. The boat was carrying a shipment of 7,000 pounds of weed and intended to sail north to the coast of Maine, where they would then offload the weed and live like kings. The radio was their only link to the outside world, with no cell phones, no radar, or satellite uplink, and navigated by sextant and map. The smugglers had to abandon their ship on the east coast of Florida, where a friend had a dock long enough to tie up The Escape and unload the cargo. They eventually found an inlet where they could unload their cargo and eventually find a new home. Prager and the crew were left adrift at sea with no port to call home due to a hurricane forming north of the Bahamas, leaving them stranded at sea. The smuggling operation was interrupted by agricultural checkpoints between Florida and Georgia, which is notorious for agricultural traffic.