Accident Photos

[waternwaves]

In response to Cats list......

((2^^4)^^.5).....maybe thats it......... I have a boat finished on a friday......

[Greg]

Chip,
Maybe your boat should be named "Duck" since trouble seems to run off your back like water off a duck! I read Jim's story and it is quite a tale for both of you. Less adventurous folks would have call it quits after the accident.
I must say that most pilots worry about a gulf stream crossing and here we have a Macgregor 26X owner that not only single handed, but slept most of the way across! Good job Capt.- way to go Next Boat!
Greg

[Chip Hindes]

Less adventurous folks would have call it quits after the accident.

By the time I'd reached Savannah, I was nearly two days and 1000 miles travel, lots of $$ and more hours than I care to admit in prior preparation. With that kind of "investment", it would have been way worse to quit than to continue. I know John felt the same way.

I really didn't sleep most of the way, though I did doze off a couple times; I'd estimate no more than an hour on the ten hour transit. Hallucinations were interesting. Once before dawn I was dozing and heard a bump, opened my eyes and thought I had brushed one of those big red floating nun buoys. In over 1000 feet of water. I blinked a couple of times and it disappeared; don't even know if the bump was real or imagined. Once after dawn, I awoke from a fairly sound sleep and opened my eyes, and was immediately seized in panic that I was about to collide with another sailboat; then realized I had mistaken my own genny for another boat (we were motorsailing).

[Russell]

Well Chip it seems that you always have some sort of trouble when you head south. Last year didn't your boat go for a sail on its own while at the Islands. Hmmm

Oh, by the way our trip to Champlain was owesome. I will share more soon...

Sincerely,
Russ & Carole

PS glad to hear the trip worked out fine and your back safe and sound..