Aw...

Everybody needs some excitement now and again!

Besides, having an engine to start would have been just one more thing to add, instead of things to subract like any good pilot does one thing at a time when it's all going south.

Personally, yeah, I'd have dropped the hook off and got it sorted out...but I really like the image of the swimming skipper! See, think in retrospect now, if you had time to empty your pockets neatly things weren't as bad as they might have been.

I thought I sent you a good tack shackle, too...please don't tell me IT was the one that went south!

If nothing else, you found out how much windage all that stuff hanging off the headstay had, huh? See, now you know...and if you ever have that problem again you'll just go in a bit hotter and then hop off and choke her with the waist spring. You're doin' great! And...nobody has named you "Breakwater Bill"! LOL!

Man...with that swimming act, it's "Wild Bill" for sure!

I take it we didn't have a pike pole handy and there was nothing on the dock to grab, huh?

OK, I stop.<GGG>

Any landing you can walk away from...
(and I swear it gets less exciting)

Dave