Lucky Catch

We have a bad habit of not always remembering to reel in the fishing poles as we get to an anchorage and start the anchoring process. We are actually lucky we’ve only wrapped the fishing line around the prop once, way back at Los Frailes (I think). As we were approaching San Nicolas, we actually remembered the fishing lines, and as Alex was reeling in one of the lines he said, “Hey, there’s something on the hook… hey, it’s a piece of clothes… hey, it’s dad’s swim shirt!” We hang our wet laundry on the aft lifelines. Although we use plastic clothespins, I’m guessing this shirt escaped, only to be reeled back in. It was Tim’s XS Scuba short sleeve swim shirt that he wears under his wet suit, and he would have really missed it, so it was quite a lucky snag.