And just like getting a flat before you get around the block.

We had the mizzen and genny up for a nice sail down the ICW when Dad, yup thank god it was Dad, strayed outside the sliver of a channel and put us on the hard sand side. This is not a drill. We to'd and fro'd for some time trying all the tricks including asking some big passing yachts to "give us all the wake you've got." Imagine their surprise at that request! Smelling a fee, TowBoatUS even got on the horn. But we figured it out ourselves, slipped off and made it a few miles to Fort Pierce.