Always bring your paddle (Hobie)

Today on the first spot shrimp fishing day of the year I broke one of my mast on my drive. If any of you haven't done that before you will quickly find out that the drive willn't work. It's a good thing I always bring my paddle or else I would of been up that creek we all know. Lucky for us in the south puget sound we have a new hobie dealer in gig harbor at the Gig harbor fly shop. I stopped by and got the parts I needed and got back on the water for some sailing for the rest of the day.

Bummer.  How did it happen?  How far did you have to paddle?

My theory is it broke because I bent my mast last year on a stump in a river and I bent them back. So I think if you bend your mast you should replace them. I had to paddle only about .25 km.

I second the thought of always bring your paddle and I would add always carry a spare rudder post too. I was at a beach west of Sheringham Point here on Vancouver Island yesterday, 3.5 miles from where I put in when my rudder post broke when I was leaving the beach. I think a wave hit the rudder as I was pushing off the beach(it was up and turned at right angles to the boat, thus catching the full force of the wave) but I'm not sure. I had a spare so back into the beach, replaced the pin and I was good to go.
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I pedaled a mirage drive once with one fin missing (but the mast was still there) and it functioned fine (it did not perform well, but the drive machinery worked as if there were two fins there).

I realize your situation is not exactly the same, but in what way did the drive stop working with one mast gone?