"Donal" wrote in message
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Look back at the post where I mentioned the sound signals. I gave a
long(ish), detailed answer to Jeff, and I ended it with a *blatant*
joke/dig. Jeff ignored the serious questions that I posed, and chose to
jump on to the sound signals issue. You then joined in.

My post was 90% serious, and 10% joke. You both ignored the serious
content, and now you want to blame *me*!! Why don't you look at the answer
that I gave Shen?

Really!!!!

This may be true, but that's why I was surprised by your ill-considered reply.

But even going back to your claim that sail boats have a higher percentage of
idiots" I think you'd have a lot of trouble proving that - it certainly isn't so
in the States. The fatality numbers, for instance, show "aux sail" having only
about half the deaths and serious injuries, proportional to their numbers.