We've got some friends on island. They decided to take a late afternoon whale watching cruise off the beach on a 50 foot cat equipped with daggerboards. As they were heading out the captain announced this was the first time in a month he'd been on the water so they were going to use the sails instead of motoring.

He headed out into the channel and beyond the wind line at a pretty good clip ignoring the fact that it was pretty rough and a number of the paying customers were getting a second taste of their early dinners. This was caused by him hitting on a babe back by the helm.

After finally realizing the passengers were losing weight fast, he tacked around and headed back to the beach while still chating up the babe.

The big head had had all its blood diverted to the little head which meant our lusty skipper had completely forgotten the boards were down until the boat came to an abrupt stop short of the beach. No one was hurt but one board was jammed into place.

The captain, who's blood has flooded back to the big head, and crew attempted to free it with block and tackle but it wasn't to be. The boat was finally taken to the Lahaina harbor where the somewhat lighter passengers were limoed back to their original departure point.

I'll hazard a guess that it'll be more than a month before our lightheaded skipper returns to the water.