"Donal" wrote in message
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"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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"Jim Cate" wrote in message
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Who are you talking about? If you take the time to read my note, I never
suggested that popularity of the Macs equals quality. The point of the
above discussion was to point out that, if the ridiculous statements
about Macs being under built were true, BECAUSE there are thousands of
them out there, we would have hundreds of reports every year about Macs
breaking up and owners and passengers being lost.

This is just one more example of the total lack of intellectual honesty
of some participants on this ng. You can't dig much dirt out of what I
say, so you deliberately lie about it and twist the discussion around to
what you would have like for me to have said, but didn't.


So you're saying that if less than 10% of the boats break up and cause
fatalities, that's an acceptable ratio for you?

Jeff, I think that you are beginning to go off the deep end.

You need to take a very deep breath ... and then reconsider your question.

Do you really think that Jim said that a break-up rate of less than 10% was
acceptable?

Actually, that's pretty much what Jim is saying. He's claimed several times (in
fact is quoted above) that if the boat were truely dangerous there would be
"hundreds of reports every year about Macs breaking up and owners and passengers
being lost" implying that if the accident rate were any less than that, it would
be acceptable. Jim is claiming precisely what you say he can't possibly be
claiming.





This is just one more example of your flawed logic, and lack of
intellectual
honesty.

"Flawed logic"? "10%"? Please .... Jeff.
In fact, you have demonstrated your own lack of intellectual honesty in your
snobby attempt to put down Jim.

Read Jim's comments again. He is claiming that unless I can show "hundreds of
reports" the boat must be safe.

In fact, all I have claimed is that there are a small number of incidents (one
in particular) that demonstrate that the warnings issued by the builder are
quite serious. You will remember that these are the warnings that Jim claimed
need not be taken literally, because they were written by lawyers. These are
the warnings that must be disregarded to achieve the speeds that Jim has claimed
as a primary reason for buying the boat.