"AttyFinch" wrote in
oups.com:

(if anyone who owns a boat has never had a nightmare, they don't own a
boat. My wife is new to boating and has already had the requisite one
with our purchase last year.)

AF



Have you ever laid there, staring at the overhead unable to sleep because
you can just FEEL the anchor draggin' towards something awful....even
though the next morning the anchor windlass has the bow in the water trying
to haul it back in?....(c;

Or..."Did I secure that spring line to this strange dock, the one with the
loose cleats that look like a rowboat will just break them off, the ones
that aren't already broken off?"

Or....You turned the light on, out there on the hook in the dark, over your
V-berth. Didya ever notice how fast it starts to DIM, in your mind, laying
there as the house batteries, whos voltage hasn't varied .2V since you left
home in actuality, are just fading away? "Did I remember to switch the
switch "A" (house batteries) or is it still in "BOTH", and the starting
battery is already dead?"

Or....Feel that? Is that the anchor chain draggin' down the side of the
hull or has it dragged us into that $3.2M Hinckley near us, the one with
the Philadelphia Lawyer who kept screaming at us that we were anchoring the
'74 Hunter too close to his million-dollar gelcoat and paint job?

"DAMMIT, I CAN'T SLEEP UNTIL I FIND OUT WHAT THAT BUMPING IS!", as you
stumble over the head of the V-berth, stepping on HER shoes diggin into
your heel, painfully. She's ****ed having been woken up out of a fantasy
dream about some rock star. Looks like you'll be on watch in the cockpit
all night, anyways....watching that anchor rode.....(d^

"Why IS that damned halyard banging against the mast, again? Who's the
IDIOT that decided to run it INSIDE the aluminum mast, anyways?!"