"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:23:36 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

There was a time, a more wholesome time, when sailors didn't think it
was cool to tell the whole world about their inadequacies, their
mistakes and their lack of sailing skill.

And you have never had any foul ups on your boat?

If not I'm pretty certain that the boat has never left the bath tub.

We learn from our own mistakes, and from others honest enough to admit
them. Since you've never reported any of your own, what can we
assume?


Assume whatever your little heart desires. It makes no difference to me.

I'll make a rare mistake from time to time but one mistake I NEVER make
is acting like mistakes are no big deal. And, I would rather stick a
fork in my eye than about them. I think it's an abomination when people
act like mistakes are par for the course and then write posts, letters
or magazine articles so they can have other people say to them, "Oh,
don't worry about it, that's what sailing's all about, isn't it? --
making mistakes."

Excuse me! That's definitely NOT what sailing is all about unless you're
a liberal boob or a clownish wannabe. But, then again, I'm a man. One of
the few left sailing, it seems.

Wilbur Hubbard