It makes your blood run cold...Anyone for golf instead? (Actually, no thanks.)
The Ireland incident which sparked the previous thread I mentioned (which was called something like "anyone for a swim?') concerned an experienced sailor who went out singlehanded in his Drascombe in conditions of very little wind but quite a marked swell from bad weather elsewhere. He didn't return, and his boat was later found drifting empty, sails up, outboard in neutral, throttle partly open, tank empty. They thought he had given up on the windless conditions, started the engine, left it idling, went forward to drop the sails, and was knocked overboard by the sail swinging across in the heavy swell. And couldn't climb aboard..... (I think he was never found.) Which, of course, sparked the discussion about climbing back.
Michael