Dislodged
Raccoon Straits
Sept. 19, 2006
Palpable relief on the faces of my crew, just moments after the wind blew us free of the sandy bottom off Tiburon, where we had just run aground -- my penalty for sailing too close to the lovely homes there. But the ground held our keel for only a few moments before I was able to move the sails around and fire up the outboard, pulling us through the muck and out into the waters of the strait again.
