[quote=bradinjax]Once way back in the 1980's there was a beautiful Hobie 16 with yellow hulls and Rumrunner sails that had been sailed very happily many many times in Salt Run at Anastasia Island State Park in St Augustine FL. One day, after a particularly nice day of sailing it was time to load up and go home. This was accomplished in the usual way that we had done it a hundred times before, with a cold beer in one hand and with a radio cranked up.
The boat was winched up onto the trailer and someone sat on the boat to hold down sails so we could go to the parking lot and de-rig. Nobody noticed the new powerline that had been strung from the rangers station to a new lightpole at the ramp. As I pulled the boat up the ramp in my 1979 Toyota Land Cruiser (J40) I saw a huge flash of light, heard a very loud popping sound and all I could see in my rearview mirror was the bottom of my Hobie pointing straight up and laying on the ramp. Thankfully my friend on the tramp was fine but it took a few years for me to convince him to go sailing with me again.
The powerline had welded every piece of standing rigging together and it had to be hacksawed apart. The State Park Rangers moved the light pole to the side of the ramp closer to the rangers station. Problem solved.
I wish I still had that boat and that car.
Brad in Jacksonville, FL
G-Cat 5.7
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