Thanks for repeating that (I posted it a while ago as well). I consider it
one of the most important and useful quotes in boating. It's amazing what a
calm, organized, and matter of fact vessel management style does to reduce
the size of the seas and the force of the wind. You almost always have
several times longer to deal with a problem than it feels like. Taking it
slow, thinkng it through, and not complicating the situation with adenalin
rush, is as important as your safety teather when the going gets tough.
Even many jet test pilots, where things happen really fast, often used to
say the that very first thing to do in any emergency was to count to ten
slowly.

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Roger Long