"Jeff" wrote in message

I've been sailing almost 50 years and never had a crew injured.

I view that statement in the same manner as "I've never run aground".....
accidents happen no matter what steps are taken to avoid them.

I can't begin to count the stubbed toes, cuts, rope burns, fingers jammed in
the sheets around the winch, hand slammed with the cockpit lid... and that's
just me!

Oh BTW... I've hit bottom an embarrassing amount of times. [ Till I learned
to turn off the sounder, since then.. nada]

I think both you and Bob are taking liberties with historical data... :-)

CM