You motorboat captains are all the same. You refuse
to believe you are nothing but glorified truck drivers.

Sailors, on the other hand, are much much more
competent mariners. There is a whole world you
are unfamiliar with because you drive boats while
sailors sail them.

How anybody who drives a boat from an enclosed
and air-conditioned wheel house where you can't
smell the air, hear the sounds outside, feel the temperature,
look at the horizon all around, see the sky, see the water,
etc. can call himself a mariner is an absurdity of a major
sort.

S.Simon


"Rick" wrote in message ink.net...
The_navigator© wrote:

Sailing a boat takes far more skill than driving a motor boat -IMHO

To safely operate either requires skill. There may be different skills
involved at different times but neither is somehow a "superior" skill.
Only the amateurs of either mode claim superiority.

You will not find professional mariners of either mode making the type
of ignorant statements regularly espoused by Nil.

Nil's comments prove my point very clearly. He is merely a pedantic
dilettante who lacks both skill and experience.

Rick