[Rhodes22-list] Weekend Sailing Misadventures

[stan]

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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