"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...

Spoken like a good liberal. There is a huge difference between effort and
accomplishment in case you've forgotten the obvious. I am not belittling
Zac's effort. I am belittling his accomplishment because, by accepting a
tow, his accomplishment is NOT what he's claiming it to be. He's a fraud
and a liar!

It's that simple. We realists still believe that accomplishment counts and
effort is something any old fool can direct or misdirect. Only when the
effort results in accomplishing the stated goal is effort worth anything.
Get it? Effort and failure is failure. Effort and success is success. In
other words effort has NO meaning as a stand alone process other than
being a starting point.


Wilbur Hubbard


Captain Joshua Slocum is credited as being the first man to sail solo around
the world. And yet he took passengers aboard for day outings during his
circumnavigation. Oh, my! He didn't really sail "solo" at all! Except that
he was careful to, if I recall correctly, return his guests to their point
of boarding before continuing his solo effort.

If Zac accepted a tow to get repairs, his effort will still count as an
accomplishment as long as he returns to the point where the tow began before
continuing his solo. It would only be terminated if he was attempting a
non-stop circumnavigation and had to stop for any reason.