I should probably know who said this, but i dont, but the quote goes:
Neccessity is the mother of invention.
They havent all been "poor poor me" situations. alot of them were totally self inflicted. like not having an anchor in the boat and needing to shuffle to shore to grab a rock and rig up a "hail mary" knot and hope it holds.
or my personal favorite, giving the old Danforth Anchor with 3ft of heavy galvanized chain a heave ho in the river and realizing ya never tied the rope to the boat, $40 anchor, $30 chain and about $30 of high quality rope sitting at the bottom of the Detroit River right in front of the Joe Louis Area! LOL
Oh the books we could write as sportsman about our mis-haps and close encounters of the idiotic kind!
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