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Well, since Simon asked...
When I was a teen, my twin and I were sailing on a Cape Cod Mercury on the Charles River. The sailing club set the Longfellow Bridge, which connects Boston and Cambridge, as one edge of the sailing area for a good reason. The Longfellow Bridge is lower than the air draft of the Cape Cod Mercuries.
Well, we ended up sailing under the bridge, with the boat heeled over quite a bit, and spent about an hour sailing on the other side of it. When it was time to sail back, we had just gotten under the bridge when the wind died. The boat stopped heeling and the mast hit the bridge.
Fortunately, some teammates from my brother's prep school sailing team were also sailing nearby, and they came over and helped us heel the boat over and get it out from under the bridge. We returned the boat to the sailing club with them none the wiser...
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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