Remembering Walter Cronkite, Sailor

CBS commentator Andy Rooney recently remembered an outing (on the Chesapeake?) with colleague Walter Cronkite aboard the late anchor's 64-foot Hinckley ketch, Wyntje.

Rooney describes the pair in the cockpit watching a man ashore yelling and gesticulating. Cronkite waved back. A few moments later, the yacht's keel touched bottom.

Rooney: Didn't you hear that man yelling 'shallow water'?
Cronkite: Oh, I thought he was saying 'hello, Walter'.