In article .com,
purple_stars wrote:
hi folks,

why do people abandon ship ?

it's a naive question i'm sure, i have not ever been in this kind of a

Besides filling up with water and being about the sink (always step up
to the liferaft philosophy), there's the issue of being rolled over
and over and over. You'd be inside a washing machine with lots of
heavy and possibly sharp objects flying around. In the '79 Fastnet
race, that reason was used by many who chose to get off the boat.

I can't think of another reason. But, I'm open to suggestions.

The bigger the boat, the better off you'll be, so you should stay with
the boat if at all possible.

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