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Tsunami aboard yacht in American Samoa!
On Oct 3, 1:24*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: "Larry" wrote in message ... I'm going to post this email I got from another ham friend just as he sent it. *It is an amazing story with lessons for every sailor and crew on the planet. *I'm very sorry I cannot stop my Xnews from wordwrapping it. *It's below my name: -- Larry snip Stupid people! They are pretend sailors and no seamen. Real seamen know if an earthquake strikes when you are at a dock - a stupid place to be in the first place -the first thing you do is get off the dock and out into open and deep water where a tidal wave will do you no harm. The same thing goes if you are anchored in a harbor - get the **** outta there. If these idiots would have put down their coffee and headed out to sea immediately when the shaking and noise commenced, instead of standing around with their thumbs up their asses they would not have suffered any trauma. Even elephants are intelligent enough to head for high land when they feel an earthquake. Why is it that human sailors are too stupid to see to their own safety by heading for deep water? Wilbur Hubbard Again Wilbur has a life as a sailor only because others actually sail. It is not Wilbur who counts; who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the sailors who is actually in the arena sailing, whose face is marred by salt and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to sail; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid beached souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Joe..& TR |
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