Whoops - that ws embarassing!

[Capt Terry]

Hey John-
I realize in a panic mode folks can do some miraculous things, but am surprised your arm was long to install your drain plug. With my Hermco splashwell tub, I don’t think I could have and would have wanted a string on the plug to keep from dropping it. I probably would have done like SailorChlud and leaped in.

Another drain plug story when was I was about six years old, our family were snowbirds spending the winter in Ft Pierce, Fla and summers in Bergen County, NJ where Dad was a bricklayer. One winter he bought his first, very well used boat- about an 18’ straight inboard. During one of our summers north he left the boat in a neighbor’s orange grove with a canvas over it. Dad got a report from his neighbor/friend “the canvas had ripped and the boat filled with rainwater- but it’s dry now, I drilled a couple holes in the bottom to let the water drain.” I don’t know if the boat had a drain or the wingnut neighbor didn’t know about, but Dad was real PO’d.