Yes, I graduated to the big stuff years ago. Dismasting, rudder ripped out of the transom, falling overboard (as I dismasted the boat), almost getting shot on a Fort Lauderdale boat ramp because I could not get my sailboat centered on the trailer, sailing into a palmtree and almost dismasting again. Going to the expense of replacing a wire/rope halyard on my first Montgomery and then cutting them both down to 20 feet since that is how tall the mast was, making a boat trailer in my welding shop that was too wide for the axle I had bought but used it anyway only to have the trailer frame wear a hole in the side of a trailer tire on the New Jersey TPKE. Ah yes, and I still like sailing. On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:24 PM, GILASAILR--- via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
'Badges of Honor - aka Learning Curve.
In a message dated 11/5/2016 7:28:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drifkind@acm.org writes:
On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry about the trouble, Stan. The way your halyard jammed is one for the books. But then, things happen in bunches on boats. Ripped out rudders, dismasting it is all part of the "game”.
A lot of the stories I read—groundings. dismastings, scuttlings, whatever— are pretty intimidating. I figure I can start with _little_ disasters and work my way up to big ones.