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Bill Leathen
heel
I had an old American 17 that I started sailing on. The second time out with the "new boat", (about my 10th time sailing) we got hit by a gust that literally did have the cabin window in the water, and water pouring into the cockpit. I remember thinking that it would dump from the cockpit to the cabin and we would sink. Fortunately the cabin door is about 12" above the cockpit floor and nothing like that happened. My wife hung on to my 2 year old son for all she was worth. My older son (about 5 at the time) did fine. I was surprized that even after I let the main out, how long it took the boat to come up. We dropped the sails and motored back to the dock. Since then with a H23, we sometimes put everyone on the lee side just to see how far we can get it over. But its not easy to get the Hunter rail in the water and definetly we have never had the Hunter over as far as we did the American that one day.
I had an old American 17 that I started sailing on. The second time out with the "new boat", (about my 10th time sailing) we got hit by a gust that literally did have the cabin window in the water, and water pouring into the cockpit. I remember thinking that it would dump from the cockpit to the cabin and we would sink. Fortunately the cabin door is about 12" above the cockpit floor and nothing like that happened. My wife hung on to my 2 year old son for all she was worth. My older son (about 5 at the time) did fine. I was surprized that even after I let the main out, how long it took the boat to come up. We dropped the sails and motored back to the dock. Since then with a H23, we sometimes put everyone on the lee side just to see how far we can get it over. But its not easy to get the Hunter rail in the water and definetly we have never had the Hunter over as far as we did the American that one day.