Forrest had to circle back, douse a spin, and come find my sorry butt during my "dolphin encounter" at 2011 Hiram's.

Good thing it was in the river/intracoastal so I couldn't float out to sea.

Bad thing I was wearing black and hard to find in the dark water. I could see him just fine


Incident occurred after a miss-timed puff pushed us over on spin reach. I didn't even get wet on that flip. I did the "Jdub-scramble" over the upper hull and sat on upper daggarboard while we got organized.

After righting, we took off again, but got a spin sheet under the windward hull. I slid forward to the bow to pull it back over the hull and slipped between the hulls into the water.

I held on to the rear beam but was getting dragged too quickly to climb back on board and didn't want to damage anything (tiller crossbar, rudder foil,etc) trying to wrestle back on, so I dropped off.

I commend the skipper for being able to execute a gybe/douse singlehanded (on a 20) in moderate (15+) breeze and come get me.

I think that rule about "having to finish with the same number of crew that you started" might have been my only saving grace....


I can't remember who it was in the Tybee/Worrell that had the skipper washed off the back... in the dark... offshore..and the crew not notice...

Was it Jake or Todd?