Helped a friend take his boat, a Columbia 8.7, around to a boatyard
for some work this morning. This place is in a narrow, shallow creek
and not well marked, but we didn't have any trouble until we met a
bozo in a trawler coming out the channel. I should have simply stayed
where we needed to go, instead I moved over just a little too far and
we got stuck. On the lee side too.

The trawler driver had zero clue and was quite agitated, his wife on
the stern deck yelled at us as they went by. My lesson- let the other
guy run aground, even if he is coming out from the boatyard putting
new props on!

We did get free after rocking the boat and getting a line to windward
(the shore was about 40' away), and my friend proceeded to his work of
rewiring the harness at his mast step. This required unstepping the
mast & lifting it up about a foot.

Yesterday afternoon we went for a nice sail on another friend's boat,
a Soverel 30. Thunderstorms all around, we got a little wet but didn't
get blasted. Tonight we have some Great Looper cruisers stopping in
for dinner, they are in New Bern as they head north on their Loop
cruise.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King