So, after a quick burial service, we're off to the ramp.We get to Shield's and launch. I look back and notice that the boat has an unusual lean. Oh no! I forgot the drain plug. I "Bo and Luke Duke" slide across the boat, grab the drain plug and install it (submerged), before sinking.
Pull the boat out as a precaution, let it drain for three minutes and head off to fish. 
Everyone knows the wind was way up, so we bounce out to the bird rack and Little Bit has the swimming area to herself. She was more than pleased that the water was only hip deep.
We headed out to fish and enjoyed hours of catch and release. We even spotted some small bivalves, but they are in water too deep to snorkel to (at least for any extended time).
Finally head home right before 5, water is way up. We're running at about 75% of WOT and THWACK!!
. I nipped a rock with the skeg. It clipped the bottom edge off of the skeg and bent the prop up a little. 
Luckily, it was relatively minor damage, so we head back to Shields. The ramps were in use, so I tie up and unload. I decide to clean the one fish we brought home, and the Wife volunteers to retrieve the trailer. Several minutes later she returns visibly upset. She had hit a truck parked in the street pulling out of the overflow trailer lot.
So, I've got a semi-busted boat (in the water), a trailer with a crushed fender, and a scared wife, a guy with a scratched front bumper (although he DID have an Auburn tag on it, serves him right), and FHP on the way
We made some hasty repairs, and I have some more I'm still going to have to make. After it's all said and done, I ask myself "Should I have stayed home today"?
I still had a great day fishing with my Wife and Daughter. Should I have stayed home today? Heck no!
..Better luck next trip. (at least it was a Tiger's truck...good shot wife) 
