Bailey doesn’t really like it when Arcturos is moving but, he loves riding in the tender, up in the bow nose to the wind, ears flying. We store the tender aft on the fly bridge and have a crane that lifts the tender up, swings it over the water and slowly lowers it into the water. Bailey always likes to help. Any time Pat goes up on the fly bridge, he has a little shadow. At Small Bay, Pat decided to let the dog ride down to the water in the tender. Bailey jumped right in and up he went. Pat swung the tender over the water….well almost over the water. The cable broke, the bow hit the corner of the awning and the tender dropped, engine 1st, vertically into the drink. Bailey hasn’t given us his version of the incident but, when Pat next saw him, he was swimming for shore. As soon as he could stand up, he turned around, and refused to swim anywhere near either the boat or his people. Fortunately, I was down getting my wetsuit on for a swim and ran up with all the commotion, just in time to get to swim after the tender which had, also fortunately, landed intact and upright. Bailey then swam back and forth, to boat, to shore and back a couple times before he finally agreed to climb up my legs to get back on Arcturos and, we think, forgive us.
You can see the crane in the background just above Bailey’s nose
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