Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Reminds me of a corporate junket I had to do. The gig was sailing up and down in front of the Brisbane CBD as a photo shoot for some models that wanted a nautical theme with a cool city backdrop. The river is pretty narrow in that stretch, so we were sailing really close to a new waterside restaurant/pub area in town called Howard Smith Wharves.
HSW is elevated with a few hundred bar stools looking straight over the river, so by the second or third pass we had a hundred or so cameras all taking photos of this numpty in a yacht sailing close enough that they could reach out and almost touch the spreaders.
I was looking so cool. Right up until I ran aground on the sandbank next to the Story Bridge, in full view of a few hundred drunken souls.
Thankfully we just lifted the keel, motored backwards a litle bit, then were off again. I thought I'd pulled it off without too much embarrassment, until a few hours later when I was mortified to find there were pictures of the boat aground all over social media.
It turned out a few of the boys from the yacht club were at HSW at the time, and couldn't let the opportunity pass by (rightly) without teaching me that if you gunna screw up, there is always a camera somewhere capturing it!
