Have had some really memorable and funny experiences sailing and racing through the years.

About 5 years ago we were sailing J120 Blew Bayou in the Newport Ensenada Race, it was probably about 3:00 AM and realy dark and winds light with flat seas, we had a chute up and were toying with a couple boats with crews we knew that were behind us, we were slowly building up layers of TP over our stern light so they would think we were pulling away from them, they were constantly adjusting and doing sail cahnges while we just limed.
I spotted a white light that we were closing on quickly, thought it may be another competitor with bare poles and possibly in trouble so we changed course a bit and sail toward to investigate.

As we passed it we all immediatly got the chills and turned white, it was the light atop a periscope on a submarine!! We figured it may have been a US Navy Nuke that heard and knew we were aproaching, coulda been a drug smuggling sub as well, freaked us out bigtime! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />

We marked the spot as a MOB on our GPS and started removing the TP from our stern light and made a radio announcement with the GPS location of the sub so others could avoid it.

We decided a round of beers were in order. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Groovin.gif" alt="" />