The sea gods are often listening, and when you wonder like that, they're more than happy to fulfill your request...
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Originally Posted by billyruffn
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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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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