Bel_Mar_Pointe
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In my infinite wisdom, I leave the thing sticking up sometimes... I guess my logic is why burn the 4 calories of energy needed to put the thing flush when you are just going to open it again. One day I jumped into the cockpit from the dock and kicked the thing... My leg powered my foot perfectly with bulls eye accuracy with enough force to kick a 70 yard field goal... the blunt square T-handle end impaled my foot between my toes... I kicked it so hard it pulled the webbing/skin between my toes back and exposed some very ugly sh!t that is under the skin... and it stuck. I had to pull my foot off the handle. It made a suction noise as it came off. You would have thought I was bit by a shark there was so much blood all over the cockpit (up about 3 feet on the door, etc). I called my wife crying and she came and got me... she was shocked when she saw the boat. Anyway, the hospital pulled the webbing back and sewed it all up. Hurt like hell...
Excellent narrative! :smt038