After a few hours of sailing the other day, my wife was ready to go in but it was too good of a day so I decided to drop her at the fuel dock and continue enjoying the fantastic winds. Coming in to the protected harbor (with the wind at my stern) I attempted a 90 degree turn to the dock. After I came about, I realized the protected harbor wasn't protected from the current wind direction. Since my bow was being blown over excessively, I turned into the wind to do a 360 and try another approach. After turning broadside to the wind, doing a 180, and turning broadside to the wind again, I was now way over even further than before. Without enough speed for the limited maneuvering room to do another turn, my only recourse was to throw her into reverse. I instantly had positive control of the boat again so I sped up a little to get out of there. Shortly after speeding up I noticed the bow unexplainably rising up a few feet. I managed to get to the fuel dock, drop off my wife then went out to enjoy a fine afternoon of rub rail soaking sailing. Upon returning back to my slip, when I went to raise the centerboard, I just found a limp cable. My experience with stainless steel cable leads me to believe that what is installed on this boat would be too strong to break with just a little bump that I experienced while maneuvering in close quarters earlier. Could I have possibly have pulled a section off the centerboard where the cable attaches too?
