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Yup. As we walked north, we saw him near the condos going around in a tight circle in very shallow water. About an hour later, there he was, near the Lobster Shop.“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady StantonComment
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When I was a kid, we came upon a keel sailboat high 'n dry on a sandbar outside of our harbor. We went over and talked to the guy. He and his wife were afraid of negotiating the windy channel in the dark, so they dropped the hook and went to sleep (at high tide). It was a stout boat, with a very thick keel, and she stayed upright as the tide went out. One of them must have rolled over or something, and the boat dropped on her side. Scared the crap outta them. They thought that they had gotten hit by another boat. No harm done; the tide came in, and they were on their way.Comment
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Just touchin' up the antifouling, yep.Comment
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Years ago, I had a small schooner. I put her up on the beach at high tide to paint the bottom. A few hours later, as I was working on the bottom, a 9 year old girl came up from the other direction. "Oh wow a shipwreck!" She was quite disappointed when I popped up with a paint brush and explained the situation.What's not on a boat costs nothing, weighs nothing, and can't breakComment
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Lotta weight on a gnarly surface. Eeek!It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.Comment
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Not a great place to anchor in a summer northerly anyway, unless short term for a Lobster Shop run.Comment
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Better to go aground at low water than at high water. Generally.
KevinThere are two kinds of boaters: those who have run aground, and those who lie about it.
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…it happens
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
If war is the answer........... it must be a profoundly stupid question.
"Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay, One of these days we're going to sail away"
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Must be something going around. This was the sight this AM in Everett:
PXL_20230526_191426634.jpgWhat's not on a boat costs nothing, weighs nothing, and can't breakComment
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When I was young, dad managed to run aground several times. Only once did we have to wait for the tide to finish going out and then come back in enough to float us. In fairness to dad, it seemed the charts of the day were less than accurate."Banning books in spite of the 1st amendment, but refusing to regulate guns in spite of "well regulated militia' being in the 2nd amendment makes no sense. Can't think of anyone ever shot by a book
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Back in June, 2019, somebody managed to go on the breakwater at Shilshole Bay Marina. On the inside
That takes a special kind of stupid. And, he went on the breakwater at high water, or close to it.
[The figures on top of the breakwater are public art. Some sort of humanoid and a dragon/sea monster.]
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)Comment
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This one near Broome WEST OZ FROM 2016. The tides in Broome are around 6 meters!
Family tells how yacht wreck destroyed a dream | The West Australian
For more than a decade, former farmer Ian Knight painstakingly assembled a yacht to chase his lifelong dream of travelling.
But the joy it gave him was shattered by the terror of running aground off the Kimberley last week and the dream, wife Carol says, has been ruined for ever.
The Knights are now in Broome, where a local business owner has put them up while they work out the future for their catamaran.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
If war is the answer........... it must be a profoundly stupid question.
"Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay, One of these days we're going to sail away"
Bruce CockburnComment
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