[pacmaann2]

It was about 3 am and we were just wrapping up after working on yet another small project on his 30' Irwin. I had probably hopped on and off this boat countless times in the current slip, not to mention I'm 20 and this should be a fairly limber, easy operation, but this night something went horribly wrong. It was a rather high tide, and I was pretty tired so I quickly went to hop over the safety line well, this did not turn out like it should have as I hopped over I got one leg onto the dock but instead of swinging the other over smoothly it was a little higher than I thought and I ended up snagging a certain male body part on the safety line rather sharply.
Somehow I got the leg over though, with both feet on the dock, and for a second thought I was going to be OK well that was until I took the first step and crumbled like a rag doll from that well known pain. This time I fell halfway off the dock and ended up one leg in the water barely hanging on bear hugging the dock. Somehow I managed to get back up as my friend came over watching the whole embarrassing thing. Nothing cool about having an awesome looking scar that looks like I was in a sword fight ,but when people ask I have to tell them yeah that's where I fell of the dock.

Lesson learned always step over the safety line onto the boat then try to hop on the dock haven't had an issue since. In hindsight at least it was 3 am so the old drunken British sea salts didn't see me do it.