[Rhodes22-list] Weekend Sailing Misadventures

[Rik Sandberg]

Touche, Stan,

I do miss that centerboard and shallow draft at times. :-)

Rik

stan wrote:

> or a good excuse to go back to a Rhodes ...
>
> stan
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:05 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Weekend Sailing Misadventures
>
>
>> The wind on Friday was awesome!  15-20 mph with gusts
>> to 30.  I had the CoraShen indicating 9 knots when the
>> max hull speed is supposed to be about 7.5.  My older
>> brother was on his first sail and was as excited as a
>> little kid.  We came up on a part of the river I'm
>> pretty familiar with and decided to swing wide rather
>> than tack because we were going fast and having too
>> much fun.  THEN, I made the shortest landing in my
>> career.  We went from 9 knots to 0 knots in about 10
>> feet.  It wasn't a jolt, we just quit moving.  About
>> two seconds later the depth alarm went off, real good
>> timing.  What we had after that was a sailing
>> simulator.  You could do anything you wanted with the
>> sails, engine, etc. because the boat wasn't going
>> anywhere.  As the sun started down we lost the wind
>> and the will to solve our prediciment.  I made some
>> calls on both the radio and cell-phone but couldn't
>> raise anyone for help.  So, we spent the night on the
>> boat.  It got down to the low 40's and I didn't find
>> the blanket I knew was on the boat until the next
>> morning.  Anyway, I was able to get ahold of a friend
>> of mine that lives on the lake Saturday morning and he
>> showed up with his pontoon boat with a 115hp engine. We towed the 
>> bow, the stern, clockwise,
>> counter-clockwise, but didn't move the boat.  We were
>> only 5 feet from deep water but couldn't get there. Finally we tied 
>> the halyard to the side rail and
>> started towing from the top of the mast.  After the
>> boat was heeled about 45 degrees it started floating
>> and we drug it sideways to deeper water.  Hopefully
>> this will be my only grounding for the season but if
>> it happens again, I'll pull that solution out of the
>> trick-bag first.  By 11 am Saturday we were free and
>> sailed back to the dock.  I was so tired from the
>> experience I didn't feel like doing any work on the
>> boat.  Oh well, that's a good excuse to go back to the
>> lake later in the week.
>>
>> Brad Haslett
>> "CoraShen"
>>
>>
>>
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