-rick- wrote:
Joe wrote:

3rd, you should have jumped in and swam out
with the anchor, dove down and planted it deep so you could kedge
yourself off.


...swam out with the anchor...?


...underwater of course...

On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, "
wrote:


Don White wrote:
wrote:
snip..
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.
snip...

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

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, "
wrote:


Don White wrote:
wrote:
snip..
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.
snip...

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.

On 20 Nov 2006 07:26:52 -0800, "
wrote:


Frank Boettcher wrote:
On 19 Nov 2006 20:53:52 -0800, "
wrote:


Don White wrote:
wrote:
snip..
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.
snip...

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

snipped it..

Kathy cannot sail but is no wimp.

Sheri the same, will hike and backpack with me, wants me to get a
reservation to hike the Grand Canyon. Has had and raised three kids.
And although she likes to go, she cannot sail and has no desire to
learn. I used to give her the "you've been on boats for thirty years
and still don't know the difference between a sheet and a halyard" but
now I just consider her a passenger and don't expect anything else.
Far less fighting aboard.

Frank

wrote:
Don White wrote:

wrote:
snip..
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.

snip...

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


Check out this cartoon. I scanned it from a local newspaper.
Seem familiar??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...CreamPuff2.jpg

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:20:45 GMT, Don White
wrote:

wrote:
Don White wrote:

wrote:
snip..
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.

snip...

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


Check out this cartoon. I scanned it from a local newspaper.
Seem familiar??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...CreamPuff2.jpg


Thanks, I (we) needed that!

Frank

Don White wrote in news:Pz98h.22503$cz.343025
@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

Whoo hoo! Around here the Coast Guard...or some friendly boater will
always come to the rescue...for free.



Charleston, too. Just ask and most anyone in a small boat will help tow
you off. I used to do it in my Sea Rayder jetboat...(c;

Larry
--
Halloween candy sure has dropped in price, lately!

" wrote in
ups.com:

I have to get to work in the
morning and Katie has o go to school and....

Oh, how I hate to go to sea with anyone who "needs to be somewhere at
this time".....

We got becalmed in the Gulfstreamer Race from Daytona Beach to Charleston
a couple years back. The sea was as flat as a table just out of the
Stream and the air was so still a hanky wouldn't wiggle. We sat there 6
hours, just like everyone else. Cap'n Geoffrey says to me, "What do you
think?" I reply, "Well, the wind is BOUND to come up by next weekend or
so. Wake me up if it freshens and I'll take the first watch.", as I head
off to my beloved V-berth for a nice nap. (I always get sleepy after
gorging on $480 in the finest gourmet food that was "left over" from
shopping in Daytona's biggest Publix Deli. The boat was packed with
enough food and booze to make Amel's factory pier in France with 12
passengers aboard.) Less than 2 hours later, I'm awakened by the Perkins
diesel I had lovingly had fixed in Daytona Marina. I drag myself out and
asked, "What's going on?" The other guys on the race crew had gotten
antsy about getting home so we motored home 90 miles on the Perkins,
getting in about midnight.

I was too tired to go home. I crawled back in my beloved V-berth until
10AM Monday morning....(yawn)....refreshed. I hauled $200 in gourmet
food home with my dirty clothes. No sense it going to waste (or waist),
right?

With our huge race handicap "Lionheart" has, we can arrive home a day
after the race ends and still place in the top 5.....(c; We shoulda
waited crankin' the Perkins..... Just because you can't see any other
racers, doesn't mean we're gonna be "last", again....necessarily....until
the math is complete.

Larry
--
Halloween candy sure has dropped in price, lately!

I always have trouble coming up with appropriate post titles. Next time, can I ask you?

It isn't often realized just what a vital safety device a towed dinghy is in situations like this. Even in Maine's high and thus fast falling, tides, I've jumped in the dinghy, hooked the anchor over the transom, rowed it out, and been back on the boat fast enough to pull off with the anchor rode led to a jib halyard winch before the tide fell enough to stick fast. You really have to jump though when working against a 12 foot tide.

If this doesn't work, put a block on the anchor line and run it up the mast with a halyard. Winching the anchor line will then heel the boat powerfully, reducing the draft as you drag the boat off.

--
Roger Long

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:23:25 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

If this doesn't work, put a block on the anchor line and run it up the mast with a halyard. Winching the anchor line will then heel the boat powerfully, reducing the draft as you drag the boat off.

Snatch block on the anchor line, taken up with a halyard.

Just when you think you've seen all of the clever tricks on a
sailboat, along comes another one.

Good one Roger.