On Feb 24, 8:05 am, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:47:58 -0800 (PST), Bob wrote:
On Feb 23, 4:30 am, Skip Gundlach wrote:

Getting a twofer here, thanks to SD's top posting saving me the effort
of combining them:
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Skip has a habit of ignoring advice and repeating mistakes. He recently
mentioned that once again, he left Lydia on watch and she became distracted and
forgot her duties. The first time she did that, they wrecked the boat. This time
she was so busy chatting she forgot to keep track of where she was and overshot
her destination by quite a bit. Fortunately this time, there were no rocks
involved. I wonder how many other times she has "wandered" while left on watch.
She may be a brilliant and capable person in other regards, but it does not seem
she has the neccessary focus needed to stand a watch on a sailboat by herself.
How many times must she prove this for Skip to "get it" and do whatever he has
to do to address the problem?

And, you, apparently, have a habit of seeking out any potential
negative. If you've read the entire series, you see - and yet choose
to impute that dereliction of duty reigned - that the assembled were
not asleep at the wheel, but actively engaged in enjoying a marvelous
sail, and electing to go beyond the prior shift's (which would include
me) unilateral decision for a turning point. If I'd been awake and at
the helm at the time, I too might have been reluctant to give up on
the sailing quite so quickly. NOAA has let us down so often that I
tend to grab whatever opportunities present themselves, such as our
intentional overshoot of the Miami channel on the way back in from
Rodriguez, just as a case in point.


In joes case he belives himself an"experinced captain" and becomes
defensive when questioned. On the other hand you do not. While you
lack experince that is easy to aqire. In joes case he has expience but
can not seek alterniatives... hes a one act pony. You take me as a
"life long learner" a prerequist for future sucess.

Keep on taking these ICW voyages and when you can do that blind folded
with no crew.... then it youll be ready for step two... coast wise
voyages... steps three and four are best consider much later.
Bob

Eek! Our initial leg, ~700 miles, back in July, and the various multi-
hundred mile "coastwise voyages" legs later, and our upcoming 300 mile
leg offshore/coastal, just before a some thousand-plus (FL-Maine) leg
when we set out, obviously are ill-advised, as I am reluctant to go
anywhere blindfolded, being so dependent on eyeball V1.0 and chart
Vx.? along with, in weather suited to it, double computer backups :{))
- so I'll never get the requisite experience to proceed :{))

Meanwhile, as above to all those so inclined, I'm diving again today
and expect the mud and slime will brush right off. Oh. Yes, the
hull, too :{)) - except for the bottom of the keel, already polished
from our bumping a few times on the way back from our holding tank
pumping and fuel tank filling yesterday as the tide was nearly out.

L8R

Love from Skip the ****up and Lydia the inattentive :{))

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