Capt.Mooron wrote:
"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Well, I don't know. Don't we have a newsgroup sailor with lots experience
hitting rocks? :-)
Mooron. He won't drink rum without them.

You know the old saying...... if you have a sailboat and claim you've never
hit bottom.... you either have never been sailing.... or you are lying!

True, but some of us only take bottom at dead low where the channel
shoaled, or exploring a muddy creek, or some other benign situation.

Others whack charted, buoyed rocks a mile from their slip at full
speed, after being warned. And then claim its no big deal, they do it
all the time.

I had a friend who would qualify as the "absent minded professor" - he
would habitually leave his cell phone at the salad bar, or go on
vacation with the car door wide open. He whacked rocks so often there
were a few named after him! When he brought his boat up to Boston,
he didn't fully understand the concept of two channels with a rock in
between, and following the "Green Right Returning" rule he whacked
"Lower Middle" at 6 knots! The boat, an Irwin 30 that I've mentioned
on occasion, suffered a bent rudder shaft, and the engine mounts and
exhaust disappeared in a puff of red smoke! Total insurance bill that
we all shared was about $5K.