[Rhodes22-list] Reply to John Lock on sailing

[Hank]

Out in SF Bay, We towed a small runabout who couldn't get his engine started
out from under the golden gate bridge.  If we hadn't been there he probably
would have washed up on one of the pilings within 5-10 minutes.

Then there was the test sail when I bought my Islander 36.  We took it out
into the bay where there wasn't much wind and the batteries were weak and
died.  We couldn't get the engine restarted and ended up getting towed in by
a small sailboat with a 2 cycle OB.  When we bought the boat we promptly
bought 2 new batteries.

Hank


On 4/15/07, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:
>
> At 09:26 AM 4/15/2007 -0700, Tootle wrote:
>
> >John said, "If you can arrange it, have somebody with a powerboat
> standing by
> >in case you get stranded for some reason.  They can tow you back."
> >
> >John, it works the other way!  Sailboats tow the power boats back...
>
> :-)  I haven't seen it yet... but I believe it!
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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> Lake Sinclair, GA
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