Back when I was young and stupid, I was trying to impress a young lady on a 1st date by taking her for a day sail. Bad mistake, it was a lot cooler on the water in Oct in Connecticut than I expected. Had to take the 20ft keel day sailboat under the railroad bridge, which had enough clearance at low tide, especially with the fresh wind we had. This was before radios, all we had to signal the bridge tender was a mouth-powered horn. On the return, the wind had died some, died some more under the bridge, the tide had come in some, and the mast got trapped between 2 stringers on the closed bridge. With everybody's weight on the leeward side, got the mast low enough to clear the stringer and the rest of the bridge. Learned many lessons that day, and actually survived to tell the tale. Needless to say, I never got a 2nd date with the young lady.
Fred W
