"James Sweet" wrote in message
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I'll never forget a time when I was probably 10 years old, we had just
anchored the family sailboat when in comes a guy in a probably 30'
powerboat, drops his anchor and then proceeds to run around in circles
going forward at probably 15 knots trying to set it, wish I remembered the
outcome of that but it amazes me to this day he didn't get it wound around
his prop.

My dad knew a doctor - an otherwise very smart guy, who told us he didn't
need charts for the waters on the North side of Montauk because he knew the
area like the back of his hand. Oops. Ripped the bejeezus out of his hull
one day, cruising with the throttle wide open right into some barely
submerged rocks which were clearly marked on the chart. Bye bye boat.
40-something foot Owens.