Well I don't have any crazy car crash stories but I can tell you about almost getting stuck on a 11 foot sail boat in the middle of the Gulf Of Mexico 😎

I use to live in the Florida Keys and I bought a sail boat from a man who drove it down from Michigan where he used it on the Great Lakes. It was awesome but I would never go to far from my island because it was a small boat lol. Since I was moving away I was going to sell it to a friend who lived on my same island for basically the same price I paid. The guy who sold it to me took me out a few times and showed me the ropes. After that I taught my self the rest😊.

So anyway on to my story. I took my friend out on my boat to teach him what I knew and to do some shark fishing (we wanted to eat a shark) before I sold it to him. We went out early in the morning and the water was perfect the wind and the current were going in the perfect direction to go out and come back in.... or so I thought🤔 but as the ocean does what it wants when it wants lol. It completely switched directions as a super strong wind and current came in from the Atlantic and was headed into the Gulf of Mexico with me and my buddy. With The Sail at full mast and my 30 HP electric trolling motor and full strength as well as my buddy rowing the emergency rowers we could still not overcome and tack our way through the current and were getting pulled back at a rather rapid pace. So my friend looked at me and said you are the captain of this ship what are we going to do and (still learning what to do myself after only 6 months) I came up with a plan. We still had cell phone service so I had my buddy who grew up on the island call one of his friends with a boat to come tow us as my plan A. Plan B was to tack our way to one of the other islands and hope we could make it. Oh yeah did I mention by this time the sun was setting we drank most of our water and smoked all our weed but we had fishing poles!

Well so as we anchored the boat to wait for his friend we were still going backwards fast and the sun was going to be down in maybe 30 minutes. I made the decision that his friend might not find us and we should try to get to another island. We started to put up the sail and hope for the best when all luck has it his friend found us! all in the nick of time. He had two big gas engines so he could fight the current. He pulled up next to us tossed a rope to tie down to and he started the journey back home. By the time we made it back it was dark and our life savor said we were 11 nautical miles out in the gulf and when the current first changed we where less than 3 nautical miles out.

All in all it was a life learning lesson, the sea is not to be underestimated lol