Steve Firth wrote in message
.. .

We get used, in sailing boats, to tackling seas and winds that
make life
very dangerous indeed for powerboaters.

Well, having stood a watch or two on a lifeboat, I'm not sure I'd
go along with that statement

But I have plucked it out of context!

JimB, Yacht Rapaz
Sadly for sale:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jim.bae...cification.htm
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