Wild tale!! This should be a permanent post on the site Kerry murray wrote:
This Fall my M15 was "knocked down" buy a very heavy gust of wind. The mast was horizontal in the water, the jib and mainsail were floating in the water and the outboard was also horizontal. All the gear stored in the cockpit lockers under the seats were tipped out into the water, and what didn't float, went to the bottom. Believe me it did not right itself. Only when one of the two of us stood on the keel, did the boat easily righted itself. Then came the struggle to get back into the boat. To my surprise, no water had poured through the companionway. It was bone dry in the cabin. The boat apparently had enough buoyancy and the hatch was high enough above the water line to keep the water out. Murray.
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