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echo: sailing
to: GEORGE SKINNER
from: DAN CEPPA
date: 1995-10-24 09:24:00
subject: DOG ON BOARD

-> On 10-20-95  22:36, George Skinner got back to Dan Ceppa 
 -> swing on your scope and are 4 or 5 miles from when you first
 -> put the hook down and it held....  ;)
 GS> ocean crossing speed record if a whale or other large fish/mammal got
 GS> hold of your anchor! ;->
My luck, the whale will just hed back to my home port.  ;)  
 GS> according to my navigation maps I haven't been over water much deeper
 GS> than 70 feet. So far I have only anchored once, and I forgot to set my
Well, 100 yrds off of the Marina, it's 100'+  
 GS> danforth anchor so the boat actually drifted close to the shore for
 GS> me. George
Not a good feeling, I'm sure...  Did it happen in the middle of 
the night?  If so, waking up and looking into the tree branches 
must have been a bit startling!  
... Rudderless and adrift in the wind.
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