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saw this from another site, and thought it would be nice to see what other Catalina onwers have hit.
For me, it was a channel marker anchor (large square concrete). Hit it when I thought I was in the middle of the channel, however, I did not take into account the current and the amount of scope on the marker chains. Turns out, I was sailing right over the anchors! Lots of damage to the leading edge of the keel, but no metal damage, just lots of glass!
For me it was a speed buoy. I was racing my catamaran with my then 14-15 year old nephew. I was letting him drive while I worked the sheets. We both saw the marker, knew it was going to be close, and at the last second a wave knocked the marker in between the hulls of the boat. The buoy slid under the leading frame, popped up under the trampoline & we were stuck. Took us a while but we managed to get the buoy out under the rear frame with a paddle and away we went.
Well the list is long AND distinguished, But in the interest of marital harmony, I'm gonna say my wife.
For the uninitiated, the connotation is not a domestic violence one. It's a modern expression - as in - "I'd definitely hit that."
If I started a thread about the most interesting thing to hit me, it would be a close one between the BendyToy and the Catalina 470. Sailing does not involve hitting stuff unless you are offshore and into "clothing optional waters."
Lake Huron’s North Channel is a beautiful area, but I found that with its crystal clear water, a boulder safely under 18 feet of water, looks no different then a rock in 3 foot
Motoring at 2 knots to port by about 20 feet of a 10 ft. high red marker in a crowded area of Newport harbor, I hit the giant submerged rock that the marker was supposed to warn about. Took a chip out of the swing keel.
Why was the marker on the side, not in front of the rock? Only the locals know why.
It's good to take advantage of local knowledge when sailing!!!
edit: I'm heading up to sail with friends from East Greenwich to Newport this weekend. I'll stay clear of that rock, for sure.
Man-made lake in Michigan... Wind in the 20s... Two of us on my Sunfish, planing on a reach. (Really!) BAM!! An underwater tree stump (not very "interesting", I guess) sent my passenger on a backward somersault almost off the bow, threw the stern upward, and split the daggerboard trunk. The hull was half full when we made it back to shore. I still love sailing Sunfish and Lasers, but I'm not a fan of vertical daggerboards.
Our C-25 only ran into mud now and then, and an occasional oyster stake at night.
We got the bow eye caught on a cleat at the gas dock once.......at the time it didn't seem we were coming in that acutely...and of course when we got out to see what was going on, the bow raised a little and was definitely hung up on the cleat...the subsequent twisting cracked the glass around the eye a bit...the eye has since been replaced w/ a stainless bow shaped plate from CD...
At the start of a race last year, we hit another boat, and got caught between his motor mount and outboard. That was really bad.
The most interesting hit I've had though was when I hit long shoal in another race (http://www.lakesimcoe.tv/map/south_west_lake_simcoe.php) We just tickled the bottom, but feeling the boat shudder as we "moved the furniture around" was an eye opener. My crew was totally oblivious to having touched. I couldn't believe we had snuck through.
A week earlier a bowrider had ripped its outdrives off on the same shoal. Thank goodness our trim sucked and we were heeled waaaaaay over.
So far, the only things we've managed to hit with SL have been a wooden beam that thunked into the bow as we were heading up the Duwamish river to our slip. It ran down our port side & got stuck under our dinghy. We towed it for a couple hundred yards, and I tried to be a good samaritan and tow it to the side of the river, but as soon as I made my turn, it slipped out from under the dinghy and continued it's trip towards Puget Sound. We've bounced off our dock a couple of times, harder than I'd care for, but that doesn't seem to count.
A racing mark which was a BIG buoy - had what we called our "Irish Good Luck Racing" stripe on the port quarter for months until I cleaned it off! Left it there as a good luck charm.
Not too sure why or how people get snagged by buoy chains - ALL of the nav aids say to watch out for this issue - that's how they are built! Using GPS to get "exactly" to a floating buoy makes no sense - they do move. Besides, the motor boaters use these buoys for their chartplottted linked to autopilot courses without lookouts on their boats - buoys are the most dangerous places on earth!
1983.................... sailing my C-22 "Contention" south on the Intercoastal, don't remember exactly where, had the 135 up, it was a deck sweeper (bet you know where this is gong), could've sworn I had cleared that channel marker by a mile but ....... I was lucky, we just glanced off it. No torn sail or damaged hull, just a bruised ego and had to put the rub rail back in place.
(that's me sailing that C-22 [most fondly remembered sailing experience] in 85 out in the middle of Biscayne Bay) And yes I know, I'm as bad as Frank, I'll do anything to post a pic
Hit, What do you mean Hit. Nothing I will ever admit to! Although there is a sailboat I've seen on the Sound with the name of " ROCK FINDER II " I woud love to ask him that question!
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by islander</i> <br />...there is a sailboat I've seen on the Sound with the name of " ROCK FINDER II " I woud love to ask him that question!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">...or "What happened to Rock Finder I?"
I hit another boat, or rather when I woke up I realized we hit another boat. Lesson Learned: Never get too drunk on your own boat while sailing with an inexperienced crew.
A sandbar but I was in a 14 foot aluminum powerboat that Grumman used as a prototype for their hydrofoil during the late 60's early 70's. I had the foils down and had just reached lift speed when I hit a sandbar in the St Lucie river, just north of Palm City. It about put my wife through the windshield and took me three hours to dig the foils out of the sand. The other time was when a powerboater put his boat in at a ramp on the St Johns and didn't look backwards the first time. To avoid having him nail me, I swerved and bumped another powerboat. The guy I hit was ready to deck the other guy but was apologetic to me. He saw what happened.
Most interesting thing I ever hit was the Coast Guard Radio station. It was a floating station that got in my way when I was showing off how cleverly I could gibe. Shortly after that, the station was towed away from there to parts unknown. I think they were scared of my sailing ability, and towed it to safer place. Took me awhile to find my dignity and I pretty much lost my "cleverness" for a long time.
My head! On one of our first outings last November I had my twelve year old son Owen helm while I was raising the main with the cabin top winch when a gust picked up and we started to heel considerably more than the Cat. 350 we were used to sailing. My son panicked and let go of the wheel. There was an accidental gybe- the boom swept the deck and hit me on the head. Fortunately the rest of the the crew of twelve year olds were too short to be hit. Fortunately I was crouched up near the mast so the the velocity was not fatal. My neck was sore for a while though.
A big red channel marker that jumped out from behind my genoa as I was engaged in a scintillating conversation in the cockpit. Parted my forestay and tore the genoa. Mercifully, the genoa luff held and kept the mast up until I got to the dock.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i> <br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by islander</i> <br />...there is a sailboat I've seen on the Sound with the name of " ROCK FINDER II " I woud love to ask him that question!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">...or "What happened to Rock Finder I?" <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Neat Topic! Nothing real exciting, only kissed the bottom a little in the Cheaspeake in a C22 swinger, getting a little close to shore.
In dinghies, hit the bottom the most with the mast, rather than than the centerboard. But getting better at that, and have also learned to clean the mud off the top of the main, before righting the boat so it doesn't come raining down.
I also tend to crash into the dock at the end of the day, kinda like landing on an aircraft carrier, but it's more of a joke at this point.
As they say, Patrick, "Never approach a dock faster than you're willing to hit it."
Stu: I thought (briefly) precisely about naming my current boat <i>Last Boat III</i>. At the time, I thought I'd made that up. Another possibility was <i>Dark Side</i>.
1986 New Orleans Municipal marina. Just moving my new-to me- Cape Dory 30 across Lake Pontchartrain, Sunday afternoon about 5:00PM, got my shifter confused and put into forward instead of reverse, rammed the pier, knocked off a couple of 2x4s and almost threw the wife overboard. The picture windows of the New Orleans Yacht club overlooked the pier, so I figured I'd better go on up and take my medicine. Would you believe, TV in the far corner, Sunday afternoon, 4th down and goal to go and every eye in the room on the TV. Not even the bartender saw the "incident." I snuck back to the boat, found a hammer and repaired the boards. End of story except my wife has never forgotten it.
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2"><font color="navy">I sail out of Oyster Bay Long Island and some lazy days I just head over to Cold Spring Harbor. My depth alarm is set at 7' and warns me off the shoal at the entrance to Oyster Bay. One day as I was sailing, ghosting really, around Cold Spring Harbor and the alarm went off so I went hard over and it stopped but at another place it went off again, same drill spin te boat hope for the best, nothing happened. Cold Spring Harbor is charted at an average of 20' and no hazards so I was baffled. Well it turns out it has <b>"Cold Springs"</b> who would have thought. I'm told the depth sensor will get false readings off the density changes so... I didn't HIT anything but drove myself nuts trying to figure out the puzzle. Watching the crazy fire drill must have been amusing for other boaters.</font id="navy"></font id="size2"></font id="Comic Sans MS">
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