MOB Drill
About a half an hour after leaving L.A., we quickly executed a near perfect MOB (Man Over-board) drill. I had been working on crocheting a hat for myself out of some light blue yarn (of course), when a small yellow bird flew on deck and scuttled beside the dinghy. Molly and I went to investigate and take pictures. Mom and Dad watched it for a little while and then went down below. When I was walking back to the cockpit (with my paper still in my hand) the wind tore it away from me and it blew out to sea! Swiftly, I ran down below and screamed to Dad that I had lost my crocheting instructions paper, it was way back behind the boat! Dad followed me up the companionway, put the boat on standby, and turned it around while I grabbed the boat-hook. I handed it to him just as we reached the paper, and he scooped it up and handed to me. The paper was sopping wet and ripped where he had skewered it with the boat hook, but I could still read it, and the rip was not on the words, so I carried it to the galley and set it gently on the counter to dry. I worked on my hat the rest of the day. That night when we got to Catalina Island I finished it!