"CCred68046" wrote in message
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Sounds like your boat's not the place to be unless a guest carries his
own
life vest, EPIRB, fire extinguisher, sidearm, camping chocolate, spear
gun,
jug of fresh water and a whole list of other things.

Hahaha. Actually its just the opposite. My boat used to run 47mph till I
got
all paranoid about safety gear after a good storm caught up with me at
Lake
Erie....

It just takes one trip. For me, it was a trip on my dad's 32' Luhrs when I
was 12. We were trying to go from Montauk to Martha's Vineyard when the
weather got "interesting" - waves as high as the bridge. My two most
poignant memories are my mother yelling at him to stop imagining he was
still on his WWII aircraft carrier, and that maybe his son, who got high
grades in geometry should do the navigating from now on. Somehow, we ended
up in New Bedford, which was NOT a good place at the time. Two weeks later,
I was enrolled in a power squadron class and the parallel rulers became
mine.