Man. I broke my hook end, and the snap slide went overboard, along with the rest of the pole. I didn't have it sheeted quite tight enough, and when the clew end popped out, it hit the deck, and in the process broke the mast end. It was REAL special coming about to retrieve it, which I did. But I got the attention of the Coast Guard, who was escorting a munitions carrier from Sunny Point. I got straightened out, and this turkey comes FLYING over to the boat, to tell me that I needed to stand off 500 yards from the ship. I made no friends that day. I "politely" informed this high school kid that there wasn't 100 yards between the carrier, and the lee shore, and I was between them. Hell, The Cape Fear River ain't 500 yards wide. I told him also that I was just your average terrorist, running around in a 22 foot fiberglass boat, with a 6 h.p. motor, ramming into the sides of hundred thousand ton container vessels, and other bloodthirsty crimes such as that. Every kid on that boat was giving me the stink eye. There is where ONE TRILLION DOLLARS of your tax dollars go, for "homeland security".
Just another bright sunny, Sunday; in beautiful Southport, where all of us bleary eyed criminals live..
