Probably the time I got a Cape Cod Mercury stuck under the Longfellow bridge on the Charles river...
The Longfellow bridge isn't very high, and the only way to get a CCM under it is when the boat is heeled over. We got through the bridge one way just fine... timing is everything. But when we tried to get back, the wind died as we got to a bit more than halfway across the bridge. The boat straightened up quite nicely and the mast made a horrid clunk against the underside of the bridge. Fortunately, a few friends were on sister boat nearby and they helped us get the boat heeled over enough to get out from under the bridge.
BTW, the Longfellow bridge is supposed to be one end of the sailing area... and you're not supposed to go past it... for obvious reasons.
The only other thing that would be in contention for most boneheaded move is the time we got chased up Lake Winnepesaukee by a thunder squall one summer day on a Hobie Cat many years ago. The squall only lasted 30 minutes or so... but it took us over four hours to get back to where we had started from.
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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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