[quote=DamonLinkous]Awesome story and great job telling it. And really good job keeping your head despite all that went wrong and how bad it must have seemed at the time. I've added some of your pictures into the story, they are great too.
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Freak line of summer squalls flip-beached me on an island; umbrella-huddled most of the afternoon lightning all around. Almost made it back to the dock! Helicopters and fire dept. searching for lost kayakers.
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." Winston Churchill[/quote]
My version of this I say to fellow beachcat sailors when things seem to be going down hill...
"Bad Times Make Great Stories!"
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It was probably an omen that I forgot the rudder pins on the kitchen counter back home. I had the mast up and was ready to back down the boat launch when I discovered it. I was twelve types of bummed (really glad no one was around to see me chew myself out.) It’s funny how right when almost all of your brain is kicking the stuffing out of yourself publicly, a tiny corner of the faculties is off hatching a solution. I zoomed to a local Home Depot. An aluminum rod, a drill bit and new cotter pins, a cheap hacksaw. I was in the water in an hour.
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I'm guessing it was a long way home and back? Also, don't let anyone tell you there are pintles on your Prindle 16 :-D Prindle and Hobie 16's use gudgeons and pins, not pintles. Those things you made at the hardware store are indeed called Rudder Pins since one long pin goes through both gudgeons.
[url]http://rigrite.com/Hardware/Rudder_Hardware/Pintles&Gudgeons.php[/url]
(I'm aware that the original Prindle assembly manual and parts guide called the pins pintles :-) but you might have trouble finding a package of Prindle 16 Pintles.)
Glad you made it back to tell the tale, and told it so well.[/quote]
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