On Sep 27, 7:17 pm, Red wrote:


Red

PS as far as S&L - when I'm working on boats it surprises me how many
times something from one of their stories pops into my head and reminds
me to check something or other out. Ever notice how many boats have
mis-aligned alternator pullies, for instance? And the discussions that
follow his stories are excellent learning opportunities that may not
have taken place had he not written about it in the first place.

Hi, Red, and list,

At the risk of throwing gasoline (diesel?) on the fire, thank you for
that. It's exactly why I post our misadventures. As seen in prior
discussions on the point, I ignore the inevitable flames from those
whose **** don't stink (not just in this forum, so don't feel
special), and engage those looking for additional info or our learning
experiences from the adventure (as they all are, if they don't kill
you).

And, Wilbur, clearly you haven't been paying attention, or perhaps
hadn't shown up in this persona (I don't recall) at the time of our
wreck, but within a couple of days, I did, in fact post (search "I
learned about sailing from that") a rather extensive examination of
how we got to be in that predicament.

I don't "get off" on posting ways we might have done something
different, or the consequences therefrom. I get off on illustrating
how (and why) things can have different outcomes than expected, and
how some of what looked to be disasters were, in fact, tremendously
beneficial in the end, but, mostly, as seen above, so that others can
gain from our experience.

I did an awful lot of that (gaining from others' experience) in the
early years on this list (where were you, then?), and contribute where
I feel I can make a difference. Aside from attack, what do you
contribute to make a difference?

As in an earlier post, it's your turn to post about your experiences.
I haven't seen any since that post, now some time ago...

L8R

Skip

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