Sailing things right

26 July 2025

11:41 · original post in Telegram https://y-b.one/boat-life/944/

Maybe I just saved a human life.

Right now there's a lot of wind in the shelter bay I reached last night — already seen 28 knots.

I was in the cockpit, watching a luxury motorboat having troubles with setting up their Bruce anchors and just by a happy occasion turned my head to the sea and noticed a guy in a dinghy with the failed engine trying to row to the shore, but there's no chance he could do it against 20+ knots of wind so he has been pushed to the open sea by the wind quite fast.

I picked up the radio and started calling on 16 if anyone has a dinghy with more powerful engine than my 5hp. With my miserable motor we could only have a company in the open sea.
Two guys responded and in a couple minutes one of them launched their rib and the poor guy got saved.