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you guys shore are afeared of livin', ain'tcha.
Subject: strange cruising thoughts
From: "Doug Dotson" AMcom
Date: 10/19/2004 9:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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"rhys" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:52:37 -0400, "Doug Dotson"
wrote:
Absolutely. Cruising can be very stressful for the reasons you
state.
But at least there's a point to the stress...a safe and successful
passage.
No argument.
It also has some very nice rewards. I found the ICW
especially annoying and thereful stressful. Not all parts of
it, of course, but much of it.
Unlike, say, wanting powerlessly for a bureaucrat to do his job on
land, at least you have the option of going offshore G.
You lost me on this one.
The autonomy of sailing for me is the payoff for the stress of the
responsibility. Sure, it can get very, very bad, but if your last
thought is "guess I should have reefed earlier", is that not a better
end than dying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, wondering "where's
that nurse?"
If you say so.
Not to be morbid, as fewer sailors drown by far than office workers
die in car accidents,
I am pretty sure there are far fewer sailors cruising than office
workers driving.
but the lessons of the sea are far less
ambiguous than those of the shore.
I'm not sure that is a fair comparison. The lessons are different
for sure.
R.
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