Quick story...
I was relocated to Orlando from Dallas and we had our 28' sailboat transported from Lake Texoma to a marina on the Florida west coast (north of Hudson Bend). I had a slip arranged in Hudson Bend so I made arrangements for myself to single-hand the boat offshore from point a to point b (our new marina.)
It wasn't a long trip - forgot how long it should have been. Left in the afternoon and got about a mile offshore and went hard aground on a falling tide (it is very shallow there.) No water, no food - it was going to be a short trip. All of the provisions were safely locked up in the car ashore :
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Called our new marina on the VHF asking for my cooler to be brought out to the boat. No problem - it will be xx$ an hour. Fine - I'm hungry and thirsty - whatever. He came out in a dingy (I'm about a mile offshore and the new marina was a couple of miles south) that won't plane - it had like a 5 or 6 horse motor on the transom. An hour later he comes out to my hard aground sailboat to
get the keys to unlock the car. Back to shore. Unlock the car, grab the cooler. Dingy the cooler to me. Dingy back. The meter is running.
Then Florida Marine Patrol stops by and informs me I can't anchor in the channel. I was hot, tired, hungry, thirsty, embarrassed - it was a darn good thing I didn't have a weapon of mass destruction handy.
Jane was safely and comfortably housed back in Orlando so I felt the need to share my misery (we do like company.) Further adding to the expense of the weekend I phoned her via the marine operator. I'll bet everybody listening had a good laugh, so did we when the bill arrived.
As I recall, I did throw out the anchor, spent the night in the channel (not a busy one fortunately) and putted in the next morning to our new marina.