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"JAXAshby" wrote in message
... actually, ghanse, when speaking of risk it MUST be compared to other risks to have any meaning at all. sailing a gasoline powered boat gives the sailor a FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARR greater chance of dying of skin cancer than dying of a fuel related accident. In fact, sailing a diesel powered boat gives the sailor a FAAAAAAR greater chance of setting his eninge room on fire (due to an overheated engine. an overheated gas engine quits, an overheated diesel will keep on overheating everything in sight for a looooooooong time). You are welcome to search the CG records for the last two or three decades to see if you can find even one incident of a fatality on a sailboat caused by a gas engine. if you include gas powerboats, you will find the fatality rate is about 1% of the rate of deaths caused by falling overboard. Even then the number of deaths per year total is less than the number of murders in Washington DC. Do you stay out of the capital because you are frightened of getting killed? If you did, your family would drag you to see a shrink. Yet, you are indeed terrified by gasoline. How about kayaks? Do you own a kayak? Would you paddle one around if someone gave you one? Well, kayaking is far and away the most dangerous form of boating. Happy paddling. From: "JG" lid Date: 12/24/2004 2:44 AM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: Interesting question... this a typical sort of response from the pinheads here. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Gammara2" wrote in message ... how did we go from boats to a discussion on sex preferences? |
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