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July 5th on Sea Puppy

Next morning we left anchor under sail and due to error on my part got into shallows that  the rudder touched. We were moving very slow about 1/2 knot. Not much wind and flat other than a few wakes. I dropped engine quickly and just backed straight up when then next wake ripple came by. again no fuss or muss..

It was all very embarrassing though.. second time in two years that I have touched bottom. 🙁

We did the long motor back to the marina and did breakfast with the gang 🙂

actually we were pretty lazy the rest of the day hanging out with everyone at the docks for most of the rest of the day.

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July 6th, 2007 | Category: F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat | Leave a comment

Evening of the 4th of July

The night of the 4th this month we went out and anchored out but we left late from the dock.. maybe 9pm… it was very very dark (no moon at all) and all the idiots on the water kept trying out their 10 million candle power spot lights directly on us.

We got about 3/4 of the way to the inlet and were winding through  an area just past the calabash crossroads when the water depth started dropping and dropping… I thought I was in the middle of the channel when just to starboard the red dayboard marker slid by. This is the dayboard marker that when your on the other side of it you stay about 100 feet away not to get into to shallow water. I was between it and the bank of the island. It passed about 10 feet away on starboard and we could barely see it. Combination of just plain dark dark and our eyes getting blasted by multi million candle power lights.

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July 6th, 2007 | Category: F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat | Leave a comment