Dogs shouldn't sail
On Apr 26, 6:37*pm, Keith Nuttle wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Apr 25, 9:24 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
Wife insisted taking our 1 yr old Golden Retriever sailing today
against my wishes. *"She won't be in the way" she said. *Damn dog took
up most of the cockpit floor and I could not adjust the main cuz he
was sitting on the mainsheet. *Boat is trying to jibe and I can't
adjust for a "soft" jibe instead of a hard one because of him.
A little choppy, maybe 3' seas, maybe 12 kt wind, a nice day for
sailing. *Dog never looked ill but immediately after jibe, BARF, BARF,
all over the cockpit. *Never taking the dang dog again.
Seeing it's a Retriever, I've surprised it didn't' want to jump
overboard and swim along side.
We were "sailing" in light airs surrounded by ducks (actually the ducks
were paddling around us). *We looked across the water at what we thought
was another boat with a string of ducks, but one did not look right. *It
was a lab. *He saw the ducks and went after them. *The couple got the
dog back on board and started to take care of the boat. The dog went off
the back of the boat. *They saw it and started following the dog from
the cockpit to the bow, where they lost track of the dog. *They are
standing on the bow calling for the dog. *Mean time the dog had gone
around to the stern climbed up in the boat and went up to the bow to see
what his owner were looking at.
Excellent!
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