Frank Boettcher wrote:
On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, "
wrote:
Don White wrote:
wrote:
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They tow us to the dock
and I go to pay. By this time I was seriously happy to be off the boat
with my wife so even *the astonishing cost of $480* didn't faze me
much. It was $10/ft for the ungrounding (28' sailboat) and then $165
minimum and a couple other fees.
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Whoo hoo! Around here the Coast Guard...or some friendly boater will
always come to the rescue...for free.
Re-thinking this, I regret posting it. It has me blaming my wife for
my predicament when I had nobody but myslf to blame. If I had
displayed much more confidence and a fun atitude I could probably have
talked my wife into enjoying the overnight grounding. Unfortunately, I
consider sailing to be an excercise in problem solving so I do not sail
for the same reasons she does. I DID invite her. I apologize.
David OHara
Tough day, but been there. You should know better. You sail in keel
scraping land to start with and you got a north wind. Bars become
islands, charts are suspect, and you can rarely get through a sail
without a bump and a "where the hell did that come from".
Fortunately, never had my wife with me while I waited for a southwest
wind and the tide to bring back the water. if the specs were biting
or I could get my cast net over some smoking mullet, it never bothered
me to wait it out.
Frank
Well, she wasnt too mad at me and was understanding about my loss of
pride. In retrospect, I really need to put the dinghy oars back aboard
now that I have painted them. I woulda kedged off as I have done
before if i had any way to get the anchor far enough from the boat.
With the dinghy, this woulda been no problem. Getting down the narrow
canal woulda been easy too with the dinghy cuz I coulda just rowed a
line to a down-canal dock and pulled her down the canal (been there,
done that).
It turns out that spending the night out woulda been bad cuz it got
rough last night although being in the shallows only 1/2 mile off shore
from where the wind was blowing would have been ok. Still, it turns
out that the forecast for the next few days is 20-25 out of the north,
really weird. SO, she was right to want to get towed.
Ive never paid any attention to tow boats cuz I never thought I'd need
a tow so the sticker shock was real. Getting a good look at it, the
SeaTow boat was impressive for its size.
I gave the impression that my wife is a wimp and she is not. In
fact, she was very concerned that I had gotten that impression of her.
We have been married 27 years and our first date was a canoe trip where
we canoed at night through continous thunderstorms cuz the river
flooded. On our honeymoon, we spent 90 days in a backpacking tent in
NM, CO, and WY. On our Honeymoon, in a rockclimbing accident, she
broke her arm, chipped her hip bone and broke her toe yet still slept
in the tent till the snow was collapsing it each night. In a caving
rapelling accident, she once fell 70 feet burning all the skin off her
hands from gripping the rope before I caught her fall. She has had 3
kids. Kathy cannot sail but is no wimp.