A friend of mine recently was injured in a launch mishap doing something that we probably all do from time to time. After getting on the launch from his boat he was "assisting" the launch operator by pushing off. It was fairly choppy at the time as a Nor'easter had just blown through. When he put his hand on one of his stanchions to push off the launch rode up on a swell and the boarding bar caught his finger between it and the stanchion and cut it off right down the the knuckle on his hand. I've done this many times in the past and never thought much about it. Several times at various clubs and marinas the launch operators have told passengers, "Please don't do that", but it never really sank in...until this past Friday. Some of us become so complacent when involved in day-to-day tasks that we don't even think before we do them. This can be the result. All he was doing was what he thought of as helping. Happy and safe Memorial Day to all. Cheers, Bob