"Steve" wrote in message
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"BrianH" , wrote:


"Steve" wrote in message
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"BrianH" , wrote:

I have no doubt that it is - you have admitted enough damning facts to
show
you are not fazed to admit the truth even when it makes you look foolish,
which you were. In particular to venture where you did in an unsuitable
vessel.

What is foolish about hiring a boat and keeping within the
guidelines set by the hire company?

Because the difficulties you found yourself in showed that those guidelines
were flawed, which you would have seen if you had known more.

Good seamanship includes expecting the worst and to prepare
accordingly.

No doubt your own perfect record will attest to that.

That is a juvenile comment and irrelevant to the discussion. Of course I do
not have a perfect record, far from it, but I have had no incident worse
than a few groundings in 40 years of skippering my own yacht in the waters
of three continents, usually single handed. Agreed going aground in the
wrong place at the wrong time can escalate into a major incident but I did
have a large measure of luck during all that time. As you did.

My homily about expecting the worse is good advice. Murphy is always with us
and at sea, he brings his brother and the rest of the family as well. If
something can go wrong, it will. And so will something else at the same
time.

BrianH.