No placid seas for him
Flip recounts sailing on the Soling in Boston Harbor a couple days ago:
... Yes, normally a very pleasant experience, except we were dealing with 30 knot winds. And we didn't have storm sails. And the harbor traffic resembled a watery rush hour in New Delhi. It was kill or be killed out there, and I damn near was killed a few times. I lost my footing on the barney post at least four times, tumbling two and a half feet down because we were heeled over so hard, we were practically perpendicular to the water. On top of all this, I took three shots to the head with the boom during the multiple times when we were forced to dodge drunken power boaters. ...
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