Bonehead move of the month

[night0wl]

A church billboard in Wisconsin said it best:

Sometimes you're the pigeon, but sometimes you're the statue...looks like you were the statue this time around

Cheer up, no harm except to ego.

[Faster]

Great story, good on you for sharing!

Welcome aboard..

[Boasun]

Instead of running your mooring pendants over that teak rail, Use the chocks you have up foward. Or remove your anchor and use the roller lashing the pendant to that roller so that it stays in that roller.
If you don't have chocks then install them going about a size or two larger than you think you will ever need. In fact over sized chocks are a good thing.

[jjrunning]

Great story! My side hurts from reading it! But only because it's entirely something that would happen to me too!

[SecondWindNC]

Nice moves. Great story.

Ditto on the not jumping in.

[Tempest]

Great Story!!.....Glad you knew enough not to go swimming...!!...

You will be telling that story for years!!....

I'll stand you a Rum..next time I'm in Annapolis....and tell you how we lost and then found our dinghy...on Anagada.....

[stuartsw]

Thanks, great story, and well told. I'm going home to a warm rum meself, and I'll gladly raise it in yer honor

[BarryL]

Hey,

Great story, thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, if you keep sailing, you will add more stories to your collection.

My first 'big' boat (a 28') stayed on a mooring. On one of my first trips to the boat I tied the dink off and went below to do some work. I emerged an hour or so later to find the dink gone. The pendant had chafed through and the dink floated away. Fortunately, some kind soul had found it and had tied it off to a dock about 100 yards away. This was the summer so I took off my shirt, put on a PDF and jumped in. I swam to the dink and rowed back to the big boat.

The next year i was rowing out to the boat late in the fall. There was a major wind storm and I wanted to check on the boat. The wind blew me just about all the way to the boat. Unfortunately, I went past the boat and when i tried to row back upwind to the boat one of the oarlocks broke in half. I tried paddling canoe style, but I was not able to make progress against the wind. I was getting tired, so I let the wind blow me down to a neighbor boat. I rested for a bit on that boat, then i found some old line in the cockpit. I used the line to make a makeshift oarlock and then I was able to row to my boat. (Later I found and thanked my neighbor). Now I always have a knife and some extra stuff in a bag I carry in the dink.

Anyway, each day with a boat is a learning experience.

Barry

[BubbleheadMd]

You're all very kind. Good story Barry. I'm glad I'm not the only one out in a dink on a windy day. For those of you who keep your boats on moorings full time, I don't know how you sleep!