On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:22:50 -0500, Steven Shelikoff
wrote:

While it defintely was exciting, we were never in any real danger.

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Don't kid yourself. If you were running in 12 foot seas, got knocked
down more than 60 degrees near an inlet, fell and cracked your tail
bone, you were in danger.

The original post came from a fellow with a mid-size trawler. 12 foot
seas and 35 kt winds while running inlets are not something that I'd
choose choose for my boat. If something goes wrong, it's a recipe for
disaster. Power boats are much more easily capsized in those
conditions than sail but a surfing broach down the front of a breaking
wave is not much fun in either.