On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:59:45 -0500, Larry W4CSC
wrote:

Nope....wrong thinking. When you're "out there", even only 397 miles "out
there"....YOUR STRANDED OUT THERE!! It's FOREVER to "shelter"....in 25'
waves crashing over the broken mast stub, the mast and its sails long
gone....Not fun.

Larry, I admire your forthrightness, but now you're starting to scare
me. If sailing were like that for anything other than the odd very bad
experience, surely *no one* would go near a boat!
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Martin Smith, the New Conservative Party.

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