Most Embarrassing Sailing Moment

better that i´m telling just two of my embarrasing moments. one from my early sailing in an optimist. it was the riva cup on lake garda. my watch broke the race before so i asked a friend to tell me the time. we had a great position in the middle left front row. she told me 5 secs left and i got prepared to start. we and one brit started and we were very far away when i noticed that my friend pressed one minute too early on the watch and so we started one minute earlier. very very very very embarrassing! (by the way my coach got it all on video tape; shows it yearly on the riva cup to everybody)

other one is a nice int 14 tale. i´m sailing with my father and we had a bet running. if we capsize, the one who wouldn´t be able to free from the hook and falls in the water has to pay the whole beer the other drinks. we managed zto capsize and my father fell into the water. i´ve been so proud of my self, that i was waving around and doing a victory dance on the daggerboard that i fell from the daggerboard onto my arse, from my arse into the water. the nice guys from my club took at least three pics of the important stages of my show!

I think we should see these pics

well i have an embaresing moment to rival most ive rad so far.  at mudeford when the tide is going out and there is no wind it can somtimes be a bit hard to take the boat back in.  one day we started drift outn through the run which ha da really fast current.  it was summer and as usual there were loads of tourists watchign us and taking photos and we wee powerless to do anything about it, luckily enough a small fishing boat was able to pull us back in, though once we were back on land the tourists thoguht we were stunt artists and starting asking us questyions, v. emabrassing

Think mine were capsizing a Lark at uni when I was swapping boats, and
the classic after racing a big boat, boat on mooring, chatting away with
the boat next door, leant on the boom and the mainsheet wasn't jammed
off properly - I went over the side in spectacular fashion right in the
middle of the harbour with plenty of very very amused spectators ...
oh dear though, there is a long list of other ones!!!

Mine have to be holding a pico for someone and going to lift the rudder and the doat sailing off with me in tow behind. And swappin from a full rig to a radial and the helm in the other boat had jumpped in mine i had 1 foot on each boat and then they started to seperate. All il say is owch!