With light winds around on the weekend I headed out my local creek for a glide around the bay on my race board. Only about 12 knots, and as I was crossing in front of the local long jetty, probably 300 metres away from it I hear a lot of yelling as things turned to crap.
Still a bit of a blur, and still doesn't make sense, but I sailed into a fishing line up at head level. The thick, rainbow coloured, highly tensioned line took my hat off while I tried to work my way out of it. It felt like the owner was still winding, or worse still, maybe something big was on the line up near the surface, because I cannot work out how it had that much elevation so far from the jetty which is only about 3 metres above water level. Trying to flip the sail to get away was difficult, and when I did , the noise of the line on the leech was ugly, but after a while I got away.
Has anyone had anything similar lately? I see there are all sorts of drone boat/aircraft things to get lines offshore, and these guys are always trying to get bull sharks for sport, and their hook setups are pretty ugly. I looked to sea and saw nothing during and afterwards.
Heart rate recorded on the watch was nearly 4 digits.
First thing I did yesterday was dig around in the spares and found a quick cutting DaKine safety blade thing from kitesurfing, now attached to the lifejacket permanently. It would have saved me from what could have been a lot worse (although the bogans might have been waiting at the ramp afterwards).
HNY!
