The Virginian Pilot, March 5th, 2000
A ll too often, while I'm playing with my boat, I forget that good sailors live by the basic tenets of Murphy's Law: whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
The law's reliability has been demonstrated time after time, whenever I unfurl the sails on the Wind Gypsy, my 32-year-old Morgan 24.
Decide not to bother checking if the anchor is firmly set in a crowded anchorage because there's not a breath of wind when you hit the sack, and you can count on being awakened by thunderbolts and screaming neighbors as a squall's winds drag the Gypsy toward their fancy new 40-footer.
Press your luck and d...
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