Ozan, Lord Kadizzle and the Commander survive

Its been many years since his Lordship played a good round of dare to be stupid, but last night was a fine session. The key to a good round of dare to be stupid is starting with a bad situation. That way you can make it worse.

So in already high winds we headed west. With no more than a storm jib the boat was moving down the lake like a bullet. Kadizzle was luckily stopped by the crew from putting up the mainsail. As a cold front bore in from the west the boat was on a reach at over hull speed headed right into a terrible storm. To make it better we were trolling for lightening. To the southwest lighting was striking and of course we were headed right toward it.

The crew had little faith in the captain and insisted he did not know where Whitmeyer bay was. However, the captain turned out to be correct and the boat made it into the bay. As everyone was settled with the boat on anchor things seemed ok. The storm had a different idea. All of a sudden an already high wind increased to seventy or eighty mph. As Ozan tried to help with the Anchor his glasses were blown off by the wind. The boat came loose and the normal Chinese fire drill ensued. We survived by driving the boat onto the shore and pinning it down with trailer anchors. The video above was the ride back the next day. The boat set a new speed record of 9.2 knots. Amazingly this was done with only the storm jib. The smallest amount of sail the Sovereign can carry.