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I'd had a handfull of soft groundings over a 30 year sailing career, and was wondering one day what a hard grounding might be like. Three days later I hit a rock at 6 knots. It was like an auto crash -- we bounced to a stop in about a boat length. Fortunately, neither the people nor the boat were seriously damaged (benefit of a steel boat). We were saved from 12 hours of embarassement by the last 15 minutes of a rising tide.
Lesson learned: it only takes a moment of inattention to ruin our day.
And yes, the rock was on the chart!
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