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nickjones wrote:

motorman wrote:
Sounds dangerous Nick and you with dodgy knees 'n' all!!!

I recon you were out of your depth!............get it, out of your depth!!!......ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ...ha ha ...ha...ok I will shut up now.

Actually I cut the story a bit short, I threw a line off of the back of the boat onto dry land, then I carried another to shore, I secured the line to the front of the boat and then made my way out to secure the rear line.
That being done I only had to wait for the tide to come in.
What I did not realise was the line going to the back of the boat was tied to a stake on what was now an island, so I was knee deep in the briny. I was lucky as the boat came off of the mudbank with very little effort on my part.
But if the wind had been blowing I would have no control of the boat, I could not have got onboard and I had nowhere else to sleep that night, it might be summer but I was wearing jeans and tee shirt, muddy ones too...