Two things that tipped over yesterday

Yesterday was an adventure day of the first magnitude. Two things tipped over, a sailboat, and a fat lady.  Kadizzle was giving Bill his second sailing lesson in the Rusty 1.   We started with no wind, but it picked up nicely and we were having a blast.  The boat took off like a rocket and the excitement was uncontainable.  After a lot of fun it was time to head to the dock. With the wind still strong Kasdizzle was going to show Bill how we could sail the little 14ft Rusty one right up to the dock.  It did not work as planned. Kadizzle was having Bill steer, which may have been the root cause of the disaster.  Steering a boat with a tiller can be confusing.  As we were about to make the final maneuver a strong puff of wind hit the boat and Bill steered the wrong way.  With both of us on one side of the little boat it tipped over instantly throwing us in the water.  Bill is 76 and nothing but skin and bones.  The water was 53 degrees and Kadizzle was worried about Bill.  Bill has had heart surgery and who knows what the sudden shock might have done to him.  Kadizzle quickly shouted at Bill to see if he could swim.  Luckily the answer was yes.  Like to full grown idiots we had two life jackets, but were not wearing them.  The life jackets were floating away.  Bill made it to the boat ramp and now Kadizzle was on his own to save the boat.  A good stroke of luck was that Kadizzle had tied a nice long piece of rope to the front of Rusty 1.  Kadizzle could not touch the bottom of the lake, but managed to swim to the front of the boat and uncoil the rope.  The rope was long enough for Kadizzle to get to shallow water.  Slowly and tangled in fishing ling he pulled the Rusty 1 toward the dock.  At the same time this Chinese fire drill started a fisherman with his wife pulled up to the dock in a fishing boat.  Kadizzle thought surely the man would come to our rescue.  No such luck.  The poor man had a 400lb wife.  Kadizzle was so caught up in moving the Rusty 1 he did not see how the elephant size wife made it onto the deck, but apparently she collapsed there. Kadizzle surmised she had some sort of medical condition. Bill was with the fisherman and the two of them were trying to drag the woman off the dock in a sitting position with her feet aimed toward the shore.  Kadizzle manage to pull the bow rope to the dock and secure the turned over boat so the wind would not blow it away.  Next Kadizzle went to see if he could be of service in the rescue of the woman.  When Kadizzle got to Mrs. Fisherman she explained to him she could not stand up because of her enormous weight.  Bill and her husband did not have the strength to upright this mass of humanity by themselves.  Kadizzle acted as a pulling force and Bill and Fisherman lifter her arms.  Like the Titanic in revers she rose bow first and managed to sustain the upright position.  The escorted her off the dock and presumably she survived in reasonable condition.  They have not yet given out the awards for who was the stupidest yesterday. The Fisherman could win with his entry, or we may win with ours.  It was easy to see there were four stupid people gathered together doing a drill in survival.  Kadizzle had no clue how to upright the sailboat.  Experienced with catamarans and uprighting them Kadizzle had an idea.  He would go out and stand on the dagger board. The weight should pry the boat upright.  All of a sudden the brain came to life and Kadizzle realize this was impossible with a monohull.  The the Einstein moment hit.  If Kadizzle could use the mast for leverage the boat might upright.  Kadizzle was going to jump in the water with a line and hook it high on the mast with this plan.  As he pulled the boat to the dock he grabbed on of the stays.  The stays are the lines that hold the mast up.  Pulling on the stay Kadizzle miraculously up-righted the boat.  Both Bill and Kadizzle were amazed at the feat.  The boat popped up to it's rightful position so quickly both were startled.  The boat got back on the trailer with no harm.  Kadizzle had to go across the bay in water up to his neck to retrieve the beer cooler, and the floating beer, along with the life jacket.  When Kadizzle got to the first life jacket caught on a tree sticking out of the water he put it on.  About two hours late, but as the say better late than never.  Today the goal is to find goggles or make googles to recover a few items still cooling on the bottom of the lake.  The moral of the story is don't let anything top heavy tip over on a windy day.