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Joys of sailing
Jeff Morris wrote: Don't let all the negative comments get you down. Just enjoy your boat. BTW, here's just one more thing to chew on: I was looking over the 2002 accident report http://www.uscgboating.org/statistic...stics_2002.pdf trying to figure out if there's any support for the PFD proposals and noticed a curious thing. There were 524 drownings that year, but only 7 were in auxiliary sailboats. In 5 cases, the victims were not wearing a PFD, but in 2 cases they were. And then it struck me: those two cases were the two children trapped when the Mac rolled over. In other words, a Mac 26X was involved in 100% of the drownings while wearing a PFD on an aux sailboat. And 28% of all aux sailboat drownings were on a Mac. Enjoy. As they say, statistics don't lie, but liars....... Jim |
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