“I feared we could be getting dangerously close to land. It was then that my own past memory began to haunt me…

“Did you hear that? BREAKERS!” Jacque’s voice betrayed her concern as she yelled down the hatch to me. I had been unable to shake the anxiety and go to sleep, so I was listening just as intently as she was. The wind has picked up, and the tops of waves are beginning to break.” I said in a calm manner to ease her concern. But all of a sudden—BAM! It sounded like a massive cannon ball slammed into us. Sea Spider was violently shaken. She hesitated, the mainsail backed with a boom, and then the sail filled again and the Sea Spider glided on as if nothing had happened. “We hit something,” Jacque shouted. I was on deck in one jump with a flashlight in my hand. I shone the light below to look for water rising in the hull. Suddenly I was startled by a loud SHOOSH right off our port quarter, like a boiler letting off steam."