"jlrogers" wrote in message
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What can I say? Met her through my work. She was an executive with a
very large company, brilliant in her field, a former ballet dancer. She
was a 90 knot wind heeling me over, and driving me forward. I knew I
should bare up, strike my sails, launch a drogue, raise a storm sail,
and ride it out. But oh no, not me. I took in a couple of reefs and
rode the waves. The wind, however, kept shifting until I was driving on
a lee shore with rigging and masts over the side. The wreck, it was not
a pretty one.


Why didn't you start your motor? Did you have insurance on the boat?

Scotty