You're gonna have to tighten that up by year, there, Kawi.....
Or at least by half-decade.
Tho over-all I'd say straining an 18 foot flat-bottom boat sideways through a 12 foot span railroad trestle is probably it. It happened, as these things do, real sudden like, through miscalculation (scientific term for dumazz), and I was pinned by the current and the one-inch 5 foot heavy-wall pipe lift-handle to the side of the boat as we went under. I sorta bent that pipe out of shape getting loose.... That's the only time I was at least for a few seconds pretty certain I was SOL dead....
Meanwhile, the Lab , out of all the floating objects, "rescued" the lunch, took it to shore, and ate it (It was a survival situation, after all), while I bull-dogged the boat to shore after it passed thru the trestle.
It is also how my boat got it's name - "Sneer". It appears it wasn't exactly flat on the floor when we welded it back up, and the right front corner has a lift to it.
