There are not many sailors who have not cursed "stinkpot" wakes. But is there such a thing as wake karma, the culmination of an overload of powerboat bad manners which gets given back in one spectacular show?

Let's take the case of the powerboat that "was sent off course by waves from another vessel," according to yesterday's U.K. Telegraph. That apparently caused the skipper to abandon ship and jump into the water. After which the boat hit rocks, flew into the air and landed in the bunker of an exclusive Scottish golf course.

Forgive me, father (no, not the Big Father, but my dad, an avid golfer), but that is GREAT. First, no one was hurt. And it's not that I want to see a nice boat hurt or a Scottish skipper with a really tough lie. But for every daysailor dampened, for every racer slowed -- a slight sigh of "ummm, hmmm. See. That's what you get..."

Read about it -- and check out the pictures (no, not you, dad -- it'll make you weep) -- here. Oh. Did I mention that the boat was called "Final Fling?" Ummm, hmmm...