Pooped in The Wash - Whats your "Hmmm something is wrong here" moment" ??

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So, Lindsey and I set off on Monday morning from Bradwell on the start of a 300nm qualifier for next year. Heading north of East Anglia, we were receiving gradually worsening weather forecasts, culminating in an "imiminent" F8 south of the Humber. We were already seeing constant and rising high 20's/ low 30's with more frequent gusts of over 35+ with a third reef in the main, and after a quick chat, realised that neither of us was particularly enjoying it, and as such, would head for home.

Swapping over (we had established a sort of 2hr on/ 2hr off routine) and I was going below, backwards and had just touched the cabin sole when we were hit on the port quarter, slewn, rolled to maybe 40dgrees, cockpit full of water, Lindsey thrown well forward but managed to hang on and was OK, and me hanging onto the climbing rails for dear life with water gushing down the ompanionway way over me and into the bilges. Not particularly scary, but a salutary reminder of who is in charge

My point is, that at that very very moment, the instinct clicked into "something is wrong here" mode, and I have in my photographic memory, a picture of that very split second when it happened. Clearly something was. It wasn't a major issue, we were just unlucky, and especially so to have been wopped with the hatch open. The port side locker was half emptied, aerials and life rings on the pushpit were re-arranged and down below was a bomb site.

Who else has a "someting is wrong here" momemt to share, or perhaps, and even better "something is right here" moment ...........