Blake Ward said he doesn’t consider himself a hero “but I felt like one that night” on Sept. 21 when a raging storm sank the commercial gillnet boat Kyra Dawn and nearly claimed its skipper, Woody Pahl of Haines.
Battling winds up to 71 knots and swells eight feet and taller, Ward and Chris Olsen aboard the boat Gabriella and Brad Badger on the Osprey maneuvered their vessels to locate Pahl and hoist him to…