Wayne.B wrote:

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:23:36 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

There was a time, a more wholesome time, when sailors didn't think it
was cool to tell the whole world about their inadequacies, their
mistakes and their lack of sailing skill.

No - there has never been such a time. Only inadequate men who are
afraid to admit their faults will shrink from telling their mistakes.
Besides which - I'm not a sailor as I have often said. We didn't get
out of our depth to the point that we needed rescue. We rescued
ourselves. We didn't go south in a group relying on others to plan
for us - we did our own planning. And we were basically successful.

The fact that we had problems was not unusual. Perhaps the fact that
we faced up to them and overcame them was.


And you have never had any foul ups on your boat?

If not I'm pretty certain that the boat has never left the bath tub.

We learn from our own mistakes, and from others honest enough to admit
them. Since you've never reported any of your own, what can we
assume?