Last year I was fishing along a seawall when the fisherman who tied up along that portion of the wall eased his boat in. I started to pick up and move when he invited me to use his boat to fish from. He tied up and took some of his stuff to his truck while I moved my gear on board. I grabbed my pole and stepped on to rail planning to grab an outrigger that was lashed to the side. One foot on the seawall and the other on the boat when I realize that the outrigger was not attached and I go down between the boat and the wall, rod in one hand outrigger in the other. The boat moved out to the end on the dock lines and started back, This 38 feet of full displacement teak trawler. I have both hands full and I go under. Just as I resurface the boat pins me to the wall, fortunately there was a large piece of wood floating with all of the other junk in there with me. It cushioned the boat enough that I was not hurt and the owner took my rod and I swam over to a ladder. The only injury, aside from pride, was I had the car keys in my pocket and the wet remote lock and alarm would not work.
