JAXAshby wrote:

no, but claiming one's talents are fine but then blaming a fine boat for being
inadequate in ordinary weather is.

Rightly or wrongly expressing an opinion of a boat's limitations
signifies moral and emotional cowardice?



to be unfraid of one's skills to handle a fine quality boat in rather easy
winds.

Making a realistic assessment of one's limitations is a form
of emotional and moral cowardice?



But a lot of the
fibreglass boats sold new today I wouldn't take into a 40 knot wind,

if you are afraid to take a Tayana 37 into a 40 knot wind *you* are a
moral
reprobate for even thinking of going offshore in any boat. you are not
qualified. emotionally.

get a motorhome.

What are the 'emotional qualifications'?








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The last stage of
utopian sentimentalism
is homicidal mania.