I wish the drain plug thing was a joke! I have never done that before - hope to not do it again! The funny part is after finally draining the hulls and frantically pushing off the island for our start that just went off, my crew looks at me and says "Dude! did you get my shoes?". I'm not sure exactly how that task fell within my responsibilities as skipper, but we looked back at the tiny little island to see a lonely pair of shoes getting smaller as we sailed away.