On Oct 2, 8:44 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:15 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:
In my view, their primary errors were (and this won't be news to them):
1) Rushing. Trying to run before "walk" has been mastered.
2) Having and relying on too many complex onboard systems, particularly
as most were unproven and have since been discovered to be NFG. (clean
version: not found good).

This may be more common than we may think.

Hopefully we won't be reading about them
but you have to wonder.



God bless those sent to rescue them.

No, very common I think. At an early age walking on a streach of empty
beach in 1966 my friend Larry and I saw the remains of a sanded in
steel sail boat just up from the nights high tide. It was a story Ive
grown wear of hearing:


Kids gone
Couple retires both 63 PLUS years. Of course comes blood preasure
meds, etc.
They sells everything.
Life dream to sail the world on blissful seas without a care. Wife
says okay.............. sorta.
Buys boat.
Has to leave on XYZ but is a month late because 123.
They leave.
Get sick, get dehydrated, lay on the floor, get knocked around, break
a rib.
They die or get rescued and for the next few years he sits on the boat
having a drinking and dreaming of what could have been.
He gets sick.
The boat sits
He dies.
The boat sits more.
It rots
The wife hates the boat and gets ****ed cause no body will give her
the money she thinks it should be wort. After all, "HE spent TOO damn
much money on it all thoes years, It ought to be worth more than
that!"
The end of a man
The end of a dream
The end of a good boat.

Bob