We learn by our mistakes the best.

[Dave]

Well I am not sure I should be telling this story, and it might come back to haunt me some day, but I think it's kinda comical and therefor good for this board.
My girlfriend and I went out for a sail today in our CD25. We went over to a nice beach in Ipswitch Ma call Crains beach. After looking at the rolers coming in on the front side of the beach we decided to head over to the back side because it would be calm. This all went perfect and had a great time on the beach collecting shells and just doing beach stuff. When it came time to leave we brought the kayak further up the beach due to the fifteen knot wind and about a two knot current so that we wouldn't have to paddle against all that. All aboard again I instructed her to click the outboard in gear and basically head up slowly into the wind while I get the anchor all put away. Now, from being there last year I thought we had all deep water in there. We anchored in 12' and it was about two hours before low tide. As she is power into the wind, the next thing I hear is "Hunny what do, we're in 4' of water"? Which mean we have about 2' to play with because the sound head is about a foot and a half under the water. I said make your turn out into deeper water. Well, it didn't go as planed and we hit the sand bar hard. Hard enough to kick the prop out of the water and then settle back down. We were probably making I would guess about three knots. I guess it was my fault and should of told her to turn the other way where the other boats were achored, but there wasn't too much I could do about it then. The next step and this is where the mistakes come in is I set the boom up so that it swung all the way out. Then I took the boom vang which I shouldn't of and set up a block to lock the boom in place. Now I told my girlfriend that I am going out on the boom and when we heal over power her up and get her off. Next, she needed to pull the pin on the boom vang and then pull me back in. Sounds like a plan right? Well, this is where the entertainment starts. I looked out and saw the kayak and thought, I could float out to the end of the boom and then apply as much pressure and needed to get her off and that way I hopefully won't break anything. So there I am out there and to my suprise I needed to basically pull down with all my weight to get her healed over enought to get her off. I said, ok power her up and with her healed over she started to move. Now, we only had to go about 50' if that before she could float, but my girlfriend was afraid that we would hit again so she keep the boat wide open with me on the end of the boom standing in a kayak! Well, I lost the kayak when the side went under and now I was hanging on the end of the boom up to my waist being draged through the water at about five knots! I didn't want to go swimming being that the water was only about 52 degrees. She looks at me and says again, "Hunny what do I do?" I don't think I should type the next part, there might be small childred reading this too, but it had to do with giving colorful instructions on stoping the boat and getting me back in. Oh, and through all this I was close to loosing my pants! So, she cuts the engine and runs up and pulls the pin and halls me back in and from the beach you can start to hear people cheering, just to make me feel better I guess.
I think from this experience I learned the next time this happens the girlfriend is going out on the boom! Just kidding, but there are much better ways to go out on the boom and if I just took a couple more minutes to think about our situation I would of come up with a better solution instead of being in a kayak that I would not be able to control. After it was all said and done we had a good laugh and headed for home.

Dave,
CD25
Gloucester, Ma



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[Warren Kaplan]

Dave,
"There, but for the grace of God, go I." What lesson can we learn from this episode? One very important one! Always wear clean underwear without holes. You never know when it will be on exhibition in front of a large audience!

Warren Kaplan
Sine Qua Non
CD27
Oyster Bay Harbor, New York



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[Tom G]

What mistakes? The boat went home with out a hole in it, and no one was injured. I think you and your girlfriend did a great job getting ungrounded.

Good sailing
Tom G
S/V Ambuscarde


The next step and this is where the mistakes come in is I set the boom up so that it swung all the way out. Then I took the boom vang which I shouldn't of and set up a block to lock the boom in place. Now I told my girlfriend that I am going out on the boom and when we heal over power her up and get her off. Next, she needed to pull the pin on the boom vang and then pull me back in. Sounds like a plan right? Well, this is where the entertainment starts. I looked out and saw the kayak and thought, I could float out to the end of the boom and then apply as much pressure and needed to get her off and that way I hopefully won't break anything. So there I am out there and to my suprise I needed to basically pull down with all my weight to get her healed over enought to get her off. I said, ok power her up and with her healed over she started to move. Now, we only had to go about 50' if that before she could float, but my girlfriend was afraid that we would hit again so she keep the boat wide open with me on the end of the boom standing in a kayak! Well, I lost the kayak when the side went under and now I was hanging on the end of the boom up to my waist being draged through the water at about five knots! I didn't want to go swimming being that the water was only about 52 degrees. She looks at me and says again, "Hunny what do I do?" I don't think I should type the next part, there might be small childred reading this too, but it had to do with giving colorful instructions on stoping the boat and getting me back in. Oh, and through all this I was close to loosing my pants! So, she cuts the engine and runs up and pulls the pin and halls me back in and from the beach you can start to hear people cheering, just to make me feel better I guess.

I think from this experience I learned the next time this happens the girlfriend is going out on the boom! Just kidding, but there are much better ways to go out on the boom and if I just took a couple more minutes to think about our situation I would of come up with a better solution instead of being in a kayak that I would not be able to control. After it was all said and done we had a good laugh and headed for home.

Dave,
CD25
Gloucester, Ma

tgrant9008@aol.com

[Dean Abramson]

In about fifteen years of sailing, I have only been aground twice. Both times on nice soft sand (pretty lucky, this being the rocky coast of Maine), and got floated off by a rising tide in short order. All in all, no harm, no foul. But one of those times, I had my mother-in-law and father-in-law on board. That part I would not recommend.

Well I am not sure I should be telling this story, and it might come back to haunt me some day, but I think it's kinda comical and therefor good for this board.
My girlfriend and I went out for a sail today in our CD25. We went over to a nice beach in Ipswitch Ma call Crains beach. After looking at the rolers coming in on the front side of the beach we decided to head over to the back side because it would be calm. This all went perfect and had a great time on the beach collecting shells and just doing beach stuff. When it came time to leave we brought the kayak further up the beach due to the fifteen knot wind and about a two knot current so that we wouldn't have to paddle against all that. All aboard again I instructed her to click the outboard in gear and basically head up slowly into the wind while I get the anchor all put away. Now, from being there last year I thought we had all deep water in there. We anchored in 12' and it was about two hours before low tide. As she is power into the wind, the next thing I hear is "Hunny what do, we're in 4' of water"? Which mean we have about 2' to play with because the sound head is about a foot and a half under the water. I said make your turn out into deeper water. Well, it didn't go as planed and we hit the sand bar hard. Hard enough to kick the prop out of the water and then settle back down. We were probably making I would guess about three knots. I guess it was my fault and should of told her to turn the other way where the other boats were achored, but there wasn't too much I could do about it then. The next step and this is where the mistakes come in is I set the boom up so that it swung all the way out. Then I took the boom vang which I shouldn't of and set up a block to lock the boom in place. Now I told my girlfriend that I am going out on the boom and when we heal over power her up and get her off. Next, she needed to pull the pin on the boom vang and then pull me back in. Sounds like a plan right? Well, this is where the entertainment starts. I looked out and saw the kayak and thought, I could float out to the end of the boom and then apply as much pressure and needed to get her off and that way I hopefully won't break anything. So there I am out there and to my suprise I needed to basically pull down with all my weight to get her healed over enought to get her off. I said, ok power her up and with her healed over she started to move. Now, we only had to go about 50' if that before she could float, but my girlfriend was afraid that we would hit again so she keep the boat wide open with me on the end of the boom standing in a kayak! Well, I lost the kayak when the side went under and now I was hanging on the end of the boom up to my waist being draged through the water at about five knots! I didn't want to go swimming being that the water was only about 52 degrees. She looks at me and says again, "Hunny what do I do?" I don't think I should type the next part, there might be small childred reading this too, but it had to do with giving colorful instructions on stoping the boat and getting me back in. Oh, and through all this I was close to loosing my pants! So, she cuts the engine and runs up and pulls the pin and halls me back in and from the beach you can start to hear people cheering, just to make me feel better I guess.
I think from this experience I learned the next time this happens the girlfriend is going out on the boom! Just kidding, but there are much better ways to go out on the boom and if I just took a couple more minutes to think about our situation I would of come up with a better solution instead of being in a kayak that I would not be able to control. After it was all said and done we had a good laugh and headed for home.

Dave,
CD25
Gloucester, Ma

dabramson@mainephoto.com

[Windflaw]

What happened to the kayak?

Well I am not sure I should be telling this story, and it might come back to haunt me some day, but I think it's kinda comical and therefor good for this board.
My girlfriend and I went out for a sail today in our CD25. We went over to a nice beach in Ipswitch Ma call Crains beach. After looking at the rolers coming in on the front side of the beach we decided to head over to the back side because it would be calm. This all went perfect and had a great time on the beach collecting shells and just doing beach stuff. When it came time to leave we brought the kayak further up the beach due to the fifteen knot wind and about a two knot current so that we wouldn't have to paddle against all that. All aboard again I instructed her to click the outboard in gear and basically head up slowly into the wind while I get the anchor all put away. Now, from being there last year I thought we had all deep water in there. We anchored in 12' and it was about two hours before low tide. As she is power into the wind, the next thing I hear is "Hunny what do, we're in 4' of water"? Which mean we have about 2' to play with because the sound head is about a foot and a half under the water. I said make your turn out into deeper water. Well, it didn't go as planed and we hit the sand bar hard. Hard enough to kick the prop out of the water and then settle back down. We were probably making I would guess about three knots. I guess it was my fault and should of told her to turn the other way where the other boats were achored, but there wasn't too much I could do about it then. The next step and this is where the mistakes come in is I set the boom up so that it swung all the way out. Then I took the boom vang which I shouldn't of and set up a block to lock the boom in place. Now I told my girlfriend that I am going out on the boom and when we heal over power her up and get her off. Next, she needed to pull the pin on the boom vang and then pull me back in. Sounds like a plan right? Well, this is where the entertainment starts. I looked out and saw the kayak and thought, I could float out to the end of the boom and then apply as much pressure and needed to get her off and that way I hopefully won't break anything. So there I am out there and to my suprise I needed to basically pull down with all my weight to get her healed over enought to get her off. I said, ok power her up and with her healed over she started to move. Now, we only had to go about 50' if that before she could float, but my girlfriend was afraid that we would hit again so she keep the boat wide open with me on the end of the boom standing in a kayak! Well, I lost the kayak when the side went under and now I was hanging on the end of the boom up to my waist being draged through the water at about five knots! I didn't want to go swimming being that the water was only about 52 degrees. She looks at me and says again, "Hunny what do I do?" I don't think I should type the next part, there might be small childred reading this too, but it had to do with giving colorful instructions on stoping the boat and getting me back in. Oh, and through all this I was close to loosing my pants! So, she cuts the engine and runs up and pulls the pin and halls me back in and from the beach you can start to hear people cheering, just to make me feel better I guess.
I think from this experience I learned the next time this happens the girlfriend is going out on the boom! Just kidding, but there are much better ways to go out on the boom and if I just took a couple more minutes to think about our situation I would of come up with a better solution instead of being in a kayak that I would not be able to control. After it was all said and done we had a good laugh and headed for home.

Dave,
CD25
Gloucester, Ma

sedco@maine.rr.com

[Dave]

We had it tied to the stern so when I let it go it just draged behind and it was about a quarter full.

Dave

What happened to the kayak?

Well I am not sure I should be telling this story, and it might come back to haunt me some day, but I think it's kinda comical and therefor good for this board.
My girlfriend and I went out for a sail today in our CD25. We went over to a nice beach in Ipswitch Ma call Crains beach. After looking at the rolers coming in on the front side of the beach we decided to head over to the back side because it would be calm. This all went perfect and had a great time on the beach collecting shells and just doing beach stuff. When it came time to leave we brought the kayak further up the beach due to the fifteen knot wind and about a two knot current so that we wouldn't have to paddle against all that. All aboard again I instructed her to click the outboard in gear and basically head up slowly into the wind while I get the anchor all put away. Now, from being there last year I thought we had all deep water in there. We anchored in 12' and it was about two hours before low tide. As she is power into the wind, the next thing I hear is "Hunny what do, we're in 4' of water"? Which mean we have about 2' to play with because the sound head is about a foot and a half under the water. I said make your turn out into deeper water. Well, it didn't go as planed and we hit the sand bar hard. Hard enough to kick the prop out of the water and then settle back down. We were probably making I would guess about three knots. I guess it was my fault and should of told her to turn the other way where the other boats were achored, but there wasn't too much I could do about it then. The next step and this is where the mistakes come in is I set the boom up so that it swung all the way out. Then I took the boom vang which I shouldn't of and set up a block to lock the boom in place. Now I told my girlfriend that I am going out on the boom and when we heal over power her up and get her off. Next, she needed to pull the pin on the boom vang and then pull me back in. Sounds like a plan right? Well, this is where the entertainment starts. I looked out and saw the kayak and thought, I could float out to the end of the boom and then apply as much pressure and needed to get her off and that way I hopefully won't break anything. So there I am out there and to my suprise I needed to basically pull down with all my weight to get her healed over enought to get her off. I said, ok power her up and with her healed over she started to move. Now, we only had to go about 50' if that before she could float, but my girlfriend was afraid that we would hit again so she keep the boat wide open with me on the end of the boom standing in a kayak! Well, I lost the kayak when the side went under and now I was hanging on the end of the boom up to my waist being draged through the water at about five knots! I didn't want to go swimming being that the water was only about 52 degrees. She looks at me and says again, "Hunny what do I do?" I don't think I should type the next part, there might be small childred reading this too, but it had to do with giving colorful instructions on stoping the boat and getting me back in. Oh, and through all this I was close to loosing my pants! So, she cuts the engine and runs up and pulls the pin and halls me back in and from the beach you can start to hear people cheering, just to make me feel better I guess.
I think from this experience I learned the next time this happens the girlfriend is going out on the boom! Just kidding, but there are much better ways to go out on the boom and if I just took a couple more minutes to think about our situation I would of come up with a better solution instead of being in a kayak that I would not be able to control. After it was all said and done we had a good laugh and headed for home.

Dave,
CD25
Gloucester, Ma

ddsailor25@ureach.com