this is what happened two years ago when me my father (the “Captain”) and my girlfriend where sailing our beautiful lake at our summer house on the masurian lakeside. The boat was a 5m long sailing boat and I was just a passenger with absolutely no clue about sailing. The wind did not come from one constant direction but was changing frequently.
We where in the process to do one of the last turns before heading home when the sail got stuck during the turn. We were easy prey for the wind and the boat was floating on the side in seconds and after another 3 seconds the bottom was up with no chance to get the boat up again and we were swimming in the cold lake. The masurian lakes are absolutely lonely places and so there was no helping hand within a mile.
We took the decision to swim to the shore which took us 45min of hard swimming. That was a fearsome situation with my father having a weak heart and my girlfriend being a smoker and not really prepared for long time swimming. When we finally reached the shore I decided that I want to learn how to sail a boat soonest…
