Minus tide

So here we are getting ready to step the mast. All the preparation the Cap'n had put in this morning. He ran all the stanchions, the preparations of all the lines, the fore stay, and all the other lines that i can't remember the names of. He set everything up perfectly so that when I got up all I had to do was; first - wake-up, then second - hold the fore-stay so it doesn't rub on the deck all the way up. We got the mast stepped and tightened everything up. We had everything done early, as per the whole weekend went, well it was all done. So we went down to the dock to check the launching scene, aaand, the tide was sooooo out. The tide was a MINUS 3 FOOT tide..Cap'n Carey got a stick, and stuck it in the water, and it was only about ONE foot deep!! We had to wait forever for the tide to come in. When it finally was almost deep enough to launch, there was a like 5 boats in line, which was good because we could see how they launch. The first one was a flat bottom boat, and the rest had deeper hulls, so we just waited patiently. bunkmate