That just got worse and worse the more I read. Holy dinah. I’m so glad someone is calling him out and letting the RC know how bad it was!! No running lights?? Not listening to the VHF?? No reef?? Wtf… I’m appalled at the disregard for safety. Was he fucking drunk? Balargh!! I’m so glad you made it home safely, and it hasn’t made you never want to be on a boat again! An experience like that does make you appreciate what you have, though I’m sorry you had to go through it. It truly is a strange place to be when it all goes south since you can’t go anywhere. Just gotta deal.

Though I did actually consider jumping off a boat and swimming to shore once. It was during a women’s regatta and the lady doing main was just being brutally mean to me, never experienced anything like that before, she made me cry. Luckily my friend was doing pit so she played defence for me since I was foredeck. Got off the boat at the end of the day and never sailed with any of them again, except my friend (she was on that magical Swiftsure with me!). I worked with the skipper too, she kept asking me to sail with her again and I was like, hells no. You didn’t shut that shit down, just let her keep screaming and berating me. I don’t trust you at all to support me, and you have to trust your crewmates. Not quite as death defying as your experience, but definitely soul crushing.

I had to stop in to one of the rig shops today and talked with one of the guys, asked him what was going on out there. He was on the tri that finished. Said it was pretty crazy out there, lots of broken halyards, but nothing too major that way. Also explains why my skipper needs to pull the mast… Man, I need to change where I get my weather from, said it was supposed to be light!! Sorry!!

Shoot me a message if you’re ever up this way or want to talk boats! And give that doggo a skritch under the chin for me :)