Bart Senior wrote:
Time for some fun. Who has some good
"falling in" stories. "Falling in" the water, "falling
in" the dink, "falling down" the companionway, etc.


In a collegiate race, on a reaching leg, my crew and I were
switching back & forth bewteen running wing & wing (skipper
hold the jib sheet 'way out, crew pulls CB all the way up
and holds the main out) and reaching (board 1/2 down, sheets
normal) and me feet slipped out from under the hiking straps.

My crew said later that he did not hear a splash, he noticed
the jib collapsing and yelled at me to get it in gear... at
this point I was pulling myself one-handed over the transom.
MY crew looked at me in aggravation, sprawled over the aft
end of the boat (ie very far out of the position I should
have been) and said 'WTF are you doing back there? And how
did you get all wet?'

The competitors all around laughed so hard that we passed
most of them before the gybe mark.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Bart Senior wrote:
Time for some fun. Who has some good
"falling in" stories. "Falling in" the water, "falling
in" the dink, "falling down" the companionway, etc.


I did a swan dive off our O'Day 22 and broke a bunch of ribs,
blacked an eye, and put major bruises and contusions on other parts
of my body. It was up in Harbor Springs and our outboard was giving
us problems so we had to sail in...the dockmaster of Irish boatyards
said to not sail in but to sail up to the floating dock they used as
a wave attenuator and he would have someone out there to toss a line
to...well, no one showed up and there were no cleats...I went to
jump onto the dock with the line in my hand just as a big gust took
the boat away as Mr Sails was trying to lower the sail...I went full
flat out on that dock. Everything went dark and muzzy and I came to
hearing Mr Sails say to the dock kid, "She'll be fine...she bounces
back quickly"

"katy" wrote:
...I went full flat out on that dock. Everything went dark
and muzzy and I came to hearing Mr Sails say to the dock
kid, "She'll be fine...she bounces back quickly"

Hahaha! I'll bet he paid for that one!

Seahag

Seahag wrote:
"katy" wrote:

...I went full flat out on that dock. Everything went dark
and muzzy and I came to hearing Mr Sails say to the dock
kid, "She'll be fine...she bounces back quickly"


Hahaha! I'll bet he paid for that one!

Seahag


Once I was able to move again...after the painkillers wore off....

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:31:01 -0500, "Bart Senior" .@. wrote:

Time for some fun. Who has some good
"falling in" stories. "Falling in" the water, "falling
in" the dink, "falling down" the companionway, etc.



When we first got our Columbia 8.7 we had intermittant engine failures
until I finally figured out what was causing it and did a permanenet
fix. However, for the first six months we often had to dock under
sail and I got fairly good at it. One winter night we were returning
and the engine would not start as we approached the harbor so it was
going to be another dock under sail. My father in law was at the helm
and we decided to leave him there let him have the experience.

With the prevailing winds the procedure was to make a down wind run
through the relatively narrow entrance channel until we passed the
pier our slip was on, then turn to starbord, coming up on a reach for
several hundred yards, then at the appropriate time turn to starbord
again dead into the wind coast about 25 yards while dropping the
sails, and if you had judged everything properly you come up a few
feet short of the main pier.

I could tell when we made the final turn we were too hot coming in but
by then it was too late to do anything about it. I was in the pulpit,
trying to judge whether I could stick my foot out and brace against
the dock box to cushion the impact without getting a vital body part
between the boat and something hard and stationary. Managed to brake
it some, but the pulpit hit the dock box and unfortunately recoiled
away from the pier. I did the classic one foot on the boat the other
on the pier with them separating. Into the drink. Even in
Mississippi, the Gulf is cold in January.

My father in law thought that was pretty funny until he realized I was
wearing his prized bomber jacket (he had been a WWII pilot). Both the
jacket and I recovered easily, the bowpulpit and dock box required
more extensive repairs..

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Time for some fun. Who has some good
"falling in" stories. "Falling in" the water, "falling
in" the dink, "falling down" the companionway, etc.

That front hatch on the J33 has my name on it, went in 3 times, once head
first, the hatch was obliging enough to slow my head first progress with the
surround.
We started practicing all of our spinnaker hoists and douses through the
forward hatch at the end of last season, so I'm going to have to get better
with that thing or give up racing.

John Cairns