No argument there. If you want to operate a vessel unsafely,
as long as I'm nowhere near you, I don't have a problem
with it.

By the by, you seem to think that the past is some guarantee
of the future. You'd be wrong.

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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*You* have to look up what is appropriate
and what isn't on a sailboat underway. Fenders on deck are *NOT*
appropriate, whether the sail be 2 hours or two days.

Says who? It's our boat. We operate it our way. No injuries or falls over
fenders in 8 years of sailing 3 boats.

RB