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New Conservative wrote:
Along with lurid accounts of absurdly heavy weather, it's hazards like this that are enough to put me off sailing (before I've even started). Can anyone offer a few crumbs of comfort on the prospects of surviving such encounters? Yeah - this is a good lesson in "pick your weather". People on delivery voyages seldom have that option. Pleasure sailing season in the North Atlantic ISN'T in February IMO. I bet the story wouldn't have been that exciting if they had gone in May or June. In 3-1/2 years of sailing from Vancouver Canada, through the Panama Canal and ending up in Annapolis MD, I can only recall 3 episodes of weather "bad enough" to remember (and nothing as bad as the original poster). We got very good at watching the weather and deciding for _ourselves_ when it was time to make a passage. Evan Gatehouse |
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