On Aug 7, 3:49*am, "Roger Long" wrote:
wrote

"Sucks" ...

I meant to type "shucks". One reason I don't type long posts like S&L
is that I'm illiterate. Probably the same reason that the point of
your initial post flew over my head. Actually, I'm still struggling a
bit with your argument. I don't see how it follows that now that S&L
have managed to get from one place to another and that they are still
on a "learning curve" that they should be immune from negative
feedback on their posts. I don't even see why they should be immune
from folks who only cruise around in their home waters. I don't need
Joyce to tell me I can't write. Anybody who can read is qualified to
make that observation. To be sure, Skip's sailing skills are superior
to my writing skills, but I still think that when he posts here and
folks say (with more or less tact) "don't quit your day job" that they
have every right to do so no matter how they sail. Their criticism is
valid or not based on the facts (some of which only Skip is privy to)
not on some arbitrary rite of passage.

-- Tom.