Why didn't the Eagles take the One Ring and fly it up to the caldera of Mount Doom? Because SHUT UP! Nobody's perfect! One of my plot pitches involves a young man and his step-brother fighting for survival in a damaged sailboat after Step-dad is lost at sea. I wanted Step-dad to be a totally incompetent buffoon where sailing is concerned, but as @Timothy M. so helpfully pointed out, because the story includes a catamaran, that meant I'd need to make Step-dad more of a competent sailor than I originally planned, because multihull yachts are more complex than a monohull.