OzOne wrote:
I'd suggest you look back thru the archives.
I some misgivings regarding the actions leading to the loss of Red
Cloud.

I bet Joe did too. However he was under a lot of time pressure to
complete the voyage.

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: "You can't go to sea with the boat you
*wish* you had, you can only go to sea with the boat you do have."

It appeared to me as it has to Neal and others that there were some
serious omissions and dubious decisions prior to and during the
voyage.


"Neal" is constantly crying doom, and insisting that everybody else is
an ignorant incompetent etc etc.... just because Joe lost Red Cloud
doesn't even make him right once... it seems to me that taking a look
at "Neal"s success record would be a better way of evaluating his
"expertise."

DSK