On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:25:41AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > And then there is also the flying dinghy...
I had one of those, actually. Didn't even pay that much for it. :) On my first cruise in the Bahamas, I anchored at Galliot Cay shortly before a huge front came through. In the space of 5 minutes, the weather went from "perfect Bahamian" to 70kt by the anemometer and gusting higher - and then back to normal 10-15 minutes later. During that short stretch, though, my hard dinghy took flight: flipped over and stayed up in the air, flapping, and didn't touch the water for several minutes. Fortunately, I had taken everything (except the oars, unfortunately... I thought they were safe, since they were clipped in!) out of the dinghy. Pulling it out of the water after the front had passed (it sank, of course) was fun too - good thing I didn't have a motor on it. I don't recommend it to anyone, even if you do get to say "I had a flying dinghy once!" afterwards. :) -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
