mmiller, I had a similar but opposite situation. I was on the beach, preparing to sit my 4 years old daughter on the trampoline and then jump myself. I forgot to uncleat the sheets and in the same second I was turning to look back to the beach, the cat started sailing real quick. I was lucky my daughter wasn´t on the cat and to be able to run fast over the water to catch it just in time, then do some freestyle waterskiing and manage to jump over. Funny situation, but could have been bad...
Sorry, offtopic, but a contribution for safety...