Or, one knows the limits of one's boat before one sets
out, and pushes it to those limits.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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How do you figure that? If I knew the boom wouldn't take it
and had I not stuffed that big wave on the tack so it swung me
around so fast I would have made it out with no breakage.

One must push his boat to the limit to know her weaknesses.
It was fortunate the boom broke when it did when it was
so easy and safe to tuck tale and run back in a marked
channel. If the boom had broken in other circumstances
it might have portended disaster.

I'd say that makes me a sailor.

S.Simon


"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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So by your definition you are not a sailor?