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Wilbur Hubbard

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:00:43 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


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Wilbur, I hope you're not going to tell us that you have never run
aground.

How embarassing (and probably career ending) for the sub commander.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Just today, I ran aground next to Man'O'War Cay. Well, technically, Lydia
did, as I was on the front looking for sharp stuff in case it wasn't all
sand.

Further, once there, I instructed her to apply power to put us further
aground. Then I got in the dinghy and took the anchor far enough forward
that it would hold us there, not even bothering to kedge us off.

That's cuz we scrubbed the bottom - every inch of it. Just as I finished,
the boat started bumping with the incoming tide. Knowing that I had very
little scope out, and before we could come very much further into the
shallows, I retrieved the anchor, which, courtesy of the short scope
(despite my making sure it was properly set in the event we elected to fall
back for the evening if we hadn't finished), came up after pulling us
forward a bit.

Then we sailed off under bare poles to a nearby anchorage, using our
momentum to turn upwind in about 15' of water where, due to the brisk
breeze, we not only easily set the hook (about 15 times, as I let it out
that many times, catching and recentering Flying Pig, before doing it again
until I had 150 feet out - in the water, that is -allowiing for the
remainder of the tide and our bow rise), but we're far enough from shore to
let the skeeters not get a foothold as they fly along in the breeze.

Great day, but my shoulders are pretty tired from wielding the long-handled
brush, followed by the scraper for the intractable parts.

Off to read for a while - no movie tonight!

L8R

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