Derek speaks the truth. Sad part was that I couldn't get her out on the water the day I set her up. The hook just wouldn't engage on the halyard ring. It was divine intervention though, because as soon as I gave up trying, a huge dark and stormy rolled over the horizon and blew in some 40+ knot gusts. Derek, who was out with his friend in the sound at the time, comes blazing into the beach, and runs all the way up to the marsh grass bank, where the boat stops, but his mast kept going :P

Luckily for him it was only a shroud. So we are scrambling around in this thunderstorm trying to get the boats unrigged and not get struck by lightning at the same time. The beach we were keeping it at was in Nags head, and I was staying in Currituck, about a 45 minute drive away. So I left the boat on the marsh grass bank thinking it would be ok, but little did I know that there were nasty T-storms blowing through that night as well, with a suspected tornado touchdown in the area. Came back and the boat was on its side (on its wing no-less) and the crap-tip had broken off where it met the extrusion.

Bad karma day all around because my truck lost its brakes later that day and I spent the rest of my week's vacation in the driveway of the rental house replacing my brake master cylinder.