An Unlikely Event
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| The heroines of this story |
While docked in St George’s Marina, Grenada, two smart and clear-sighted young Swedish girls approached Ice Floe. My first thought was they wanted to pet Duhkxy as this is a request we field many times each day. As you know, he is the cutest dog on earth. Settle down all you people with wonderful dogs you believe hold that title – we have objective evidence for this claim.
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| At last count, the number of adoring Grenadians who have testified that Duhkxy is the cutest dog in the world exceeds the tally of lies told by our incumbent president |
But I digress, as Duhkxy plays no part in this story.
The younger of the two heroines in this story said “Do you know….” and pointed up to the sky. I thought perhaps some interesting water birds were perching somewhere on the mast. After taking a look, I was at a loss as to what they were trying to bring to our attention. The older heroine chimed in that there was string – just as George spotted the thin blue line(s) of string that were attached to the top our mast. It appeared that two lines of this string originated from the top of the mast of a catamaran on the opposite side of the dock from Ice Floe and then became tangled around the top of our mast.
From our mast, these strings continued on all the way to the next dock. Luckily they had not ensnared anything else. With the help of a gentleman on this dock, and another sailor with a dinghy in the water, this string was quickly retrieved and secured on Ice Floe. We thanked the girls and others who had assisted us and retired for the evening, happy to know the instruments on the top of the mast were safe for the time being.
The string was thin, but made of nylon and extremely strong. Any two boats attached to it would be in for a nasty surprise if one attempted to move away.
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| George on his way up the mast to untangle this thin blue line |
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| An enlargement of the previous photo in case your eyesight is not quite as good as our two Swedish angels |
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George found the string to be extensively tangled around the wind instrument and it
took quite some time to extricate it from this spiderweb. |
George was assisted in untangling the line by intermittent squalls of heavy rain and gusts of 20+ knots of wind. This, in the protected marina. The squalls and swell had kept us docked there for several more days than we had intended – turns out, that was fortunate indeed. Unfortunately, one end of the thin blue line got loose and tied itself around still another mast, port side to the catamaran. We alerted them to the problem, fortunately in time as they were leaving the following day. The captain of this sailboat thanked us several times, remarking what a costly and inconvenient outcome would have resulted if he had not known.
The string was still tangled throughout the catamaran’s rigging. This boat’s occupants had left a few days prior and would not be back for several months. We left a note on their boat and alerted the marina staff.
A Happy Ending
We could not thank our heroines enough, but did our best over enormous portions of ice cream. They turned a most certain disaster into a fun memory.
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Duhkxy is a very cute dog and the ice cream was the best 🙂 Lycklig resaEmma and Klara (The heroines of the story)
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