Gregory Hall wrote:


Point well taken. But the sheer quantity and size of your rescue forces for
such a small kingdom indicates an amateur fleet of sailors with few or no
offshore skills. Why else would there be a pressing need for myriad rescue
forces?

Because the UK has 8000 miles of coastline containing the world's most
congested shipping lanes. There is no equivalent in US waters to the
Straits of Dover, and the USA does not have to deal with the shipments
of half a dozen other industrial powers within its coastal waters.

But, I think your point is one most of the world is familiar with. Just
about every real sailor has heard or read about the carnage that occurred at
the Fastnet race from a little old force 10 and your former colony isn't far
behind with their ineptitude as evidenced more than once in the
Sydney-Hobart race series mass founderings.

Uh huh and of course the US in the main doesn't understand the nature of
storms on this side of the Atlantic or indeed of the extreme tidal range
and associated strong currents in these waters.

This kind of thing is unheard of in the United States of America where a
need for such a mass rescue is unheard of. This all means superior sailors
easily get by with minimal rescue services.

It means that you pussy whipped amateurs stay at home when the wind is
above f4. And if you look at UK statistics very few rescues are those of
leisure sailors, the recent rescues in UK waters have been predominantly
of foreign nationals caught out by the conditions.