Your bantering reminds me of the latest Rosie/Trump battle. Neither of
them knows when to keep their mouth shut. Just like them, you're not
gaining any respect.

-- Geoff

"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:PG9oh.1136$us1.922@trndny04:

You still haven't convinced me.

I think Larry has the right idea... build beautiful boat and take
beautiful lady friend on boat for trip to islands.

Then,, if it gets "chilly" you can cuddle..


hahahahahahahhaah


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"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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NE Sailboat: For some reason or another you seem intent on bashing
Barnes with a lot of venom. You've posted 1/3 of the responses to
this thread and seem to be drawn to following this post. That's easy
to do when you're sitting behind a computer somewhere in the NE. You
weren't on his boat and you don't know the conditions of his systems
or of Barnes himself.

Many people set out on voyages not fully prepared for them. You over
estimate your abilities or the condition of your boat and you under
estimate the severity of the conditions that you can run in to. Many
times luck is on your side and you escape unscathed. Sometimes luck
runs against you and all hell breaks loose. I suspect that it was a
combination of the above.

I think about the 1st time that I sailed from Newport, RI to the BVIs
and I can't believe how nieve I was. Back then I had at most sailed
from RI to Florida and back and had done at most a handful of over-
nighters. Now I'm amazed at how little I knew, but I came through in
one piece.

Since then I've put on 30,000+ miles and still would doubt my
abilities to handle the conditions in the off the coast of Chile. I
have no desire to go there, call it either having the brains to know
my limits or not having the balls to undertake such an adventure.
But you have to give the guy credit for trying.

If you read the credits at the bottom of his web page it appears that
he's spent the last 4 years planning and preparing for this voyage.
One can hardly consider this a lark on his part. Things just went
bad for him. After all of this planning I doubt that he would just
abandon his boat for no real reason.

Most accidents aren't due to a single failure. They're due to
cascading events and fatigue. None of us were there and we don't
know the whole story. Right now we're relying on dribs and drabs of
info from the news media, some of which seem to be wrong. It's not
fair to criticize the guy until all of the facts come out. Even
then, it's easy to be a Monday morning skipper and say how you would
have done things differently.

-- Geoff