think of where the America's Cup is right now.

Scotty, from temperate PA

"katysails" wrote in message
...
Ya know, every so often the "real sailor" thing comes up and we know where
that leads...When I think of a "real sailor", I go back to what
descriptions
of sailors from history and literature. Did you ever notice that the
great
saialors, men who battled on the sea, or transported goods, or performed
adventurous deeds, were ALL from temperate climates? They may have
sojourned to the tropics, but the majority sailed back from whence they
came. Think of the historically great ports: Plymouth, Liverpool,
Bristol
in Great Britain to name a few. In the USA we have Plymouth, Boston, the
Chesepeake...We have all the great ports of the NE seaboard. From these
ports, we imported and exported by sailing ship. We whaled. We fished.
We
made our country great. What sailors were noted for coming from the
tropics? Pirates. Privateers. Slavers. It all fits, doesn't it? Think
about it....

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