Joe wrote:
Thats not the point, I'm telling you with a well founded boat no seas
on earth can scare me.

Well, if you're not afraid to die, that's a good attitude.

I have seen the ocean rip 2" welded steel plates apart, and
that was in a storm of less than 24 hours brewing (North Sea
'V' shaped depression).

In that same storm, two oil rigs were heavily damaged, one
was abandoned and one of the survival pods w/ approx 30 men
was lost.

I was on a 400' Navy ship, and it was not fun. We recovered
one of the survival pods (like a lifeboat). IMHO there is no
small sailboat ever built that would not have been shredded
in that storm. Imagine being lifted up 50 or 60 feet in the
air, then slammed down, tumbling as you go. Sometime getting
slammed from 50' up landing on your side, sometimes
upside-down. Repeat at least twice every three minutes for
twelve hours.

The biggest piece left would fit in a pizza box.



..... My fear
would be dying in bed asleep, or in an office building closing a deal.


Nobody knows how it will happen, but we all know it will.
Every man likes to think he's not afraid of dying but to
seek it out is either very stupid, or crazy, or both.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King