It may not look like an entirely safe practice - but it sure beats going the long way round.
These sailors came up with an ingenious way to get their boat - complete with 80ft mast - under a 65ft bridge on the Intracoastal Waterway.
A video posted on YouTube shows how the sailors keeled the boat over by dangling containers filled with two tons of water from the mast.
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Balancing act: The sailors used containers filled with water to pull the boat over so its 80ft mast would fit under the 60ft bridge
But it is not a solution for the faint hearted.
Any miscalculation with the weight has the potential to send the whole boat crashing into the water.
The sailor 'hunterparrot' who posted the video said he initiates the roll by fixing the containers to the mast and slowly turning to port.
The severity of the roll is then controlled by letting the ropes affixed to the mast out gradually with a cockpit winch.
The intracoastal waterway is a 3000-mile network of waterways that run up the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the U.S.
It runs from New Jersey, around Florida to Texas.
Thar she blows: The sailors came up with the ingenious solution to pass under a bridge on the Intracoastal Waterway
Keeling over: The canvas containers hanging from the mast were filled with two tons of water
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