"katy" wrote
| I had that happen to me...I was in the water and the O'Day was
| aground...we were trying to see how much mud we were in when a flotilla
| of MC Scows comes roaring up...Mr Sails is yelling at them that I am in
| the water and they screamed back "We're racing!" One zoomed by close
| enough that I could have touched its hull....


Your husband should've been ringing the bell with the signal for being aground.
Maybe they would've stayed further away if they knew it was shallow there.

Cheers,
Ellen