back from Catalina Island to Redondo Beach. His wife was really the sailor and he just went along for the social side of it. The auto pilot is set and she is down below making lunch. He's kicking back watching the world go by when he hears "Help!". He looks around and doesn't see anything. No boats, no raft, no floats and then he hears it again. He yells at his wife, they put about and find this poor guy treading water out in the middle of the channel 15 miles for nowhere. They drag they guy on board and after about 10 minutes of warming the idiot up they get the story out of him. He and his girlfriend are returning to Long Beach from Avalon and he picks up some seaweed on the self steering vane. The guy goes back and leans over the side the get rid of it but, you guessed it, falls overboard. Now, hers where it gets funny. The girlfriend doesn't know how to sail! She knows nothing about his boat or any other boat for that matter and the boat just sails away and she doesn't have a clue how to stop it. To her credit, she was smart enough to rummage around the chart table and come up with the manual to the radio, read it and call for help. My friend called the Coast Guard and told them they found this guy and they said that they already had the boat and girl. So here's why I said the guy was an idiot. My friend was a Woolrich salesman and he had a bunch of really nice sweaters and Hudson Bay point blankets aboard. He loaned the guy a sweater, blanket and 20 bucks for a cab to get back to Long Beach from Redondo harbor. He never gets his sweater, blanket or 20 bucks back and never even gets a thank you note. Like you said, "no good deed goes un-punished".