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So felt pretty dumb today after I took my boat out for the first time and thought there's no way I'm the only guy who's done something silly out there so let's have it, the good bad and the ugly....something for us all to laugh at as we head into another long winter.....ok me first
In my defence I've never sailed before this summer, but bought a boat, took some lessons on a better boat and then decided to fix mine up. Re worked the trailer, new tires, paint and bumpers, then Painted the deck and sent the sails for a wash some other general stuff here and there. at some point I took the transom flaps off and decided not to put them back....looking at the old ones I didn't think they did much anyway and just assumed the transome would be above water and it would be a non issue till I got around to it. Nope, all wrong, rigged the boat just how they showed me, launched it with the wife, jumped in and we started taking on water.....a lot of water. Decided discretion was the better part of valour and turned around after 20 ft . While I was holding the boat to the busy dock A guy with a camera came buy, chuckled, took pictures , and to add insult to injury loading the boat back on looked like a small circus act with my wife trying to back the trailer done the ramp. Bad first day.....lots of lessons learned.
In my defence I've never sailed before this summer, but bought a boat, took some lessons on a better boat and then decided to fix mine up. Re worked the trailer, new tires, paint and bumpers, then Painted the deck and sent the sails for a wash some other general stuff here and there. at some point I took the transom flaps off and decided not to put them back....looking at the old ones I didn't think they did much anyway and just assumed the transome would be above water and it would be a non issue till I got around to it. Nope, all wrong, rigged the boat just how they showed me, launched it with the wife, jumped in and we started taking on water.....a lot of water. Decided discretion was the better part of valour and turned around after 20 ft . While I was holding the boat to the busy dock A guy with a camera came buy, chuckled, took pictures , and to add insult to injury loading the boat back on looked like a small circus act with my wife trying to back the trailer done the ramp. Bad first day.....lots of lessons learned.