... and the gods-honest truth...

at the Shearwater triangles race in Ocean Springs Mississippi a couple years ago, the RC realized that they'd left their horns on the beach. The owner of the committee boat went below, and came back up with a 30.06 rifle.

For the starts, we shot the rifle down into the water. A 2-ft geyser of water every sequence.

NOBODY barged the committee boat. NOBODY was over early. What nice starts we had.

And a guy from Florida was quoted as saying, "You know you're in Mississippi when they have live ammunition on the start line."