Many of you are guilty of using a fallacious argument.

You argue that those who don't voyage or make long coastal passages are
unqualified to comment upon those who do. This argument you conduct by
posting messages in a news group using the English language via the written
word.

Yet, it is patently obvious that many of you are functionally illiterate or
close to it.

By your very own argument you are, therefore, not qualified to post your
argument that unless one is voyaging one cannot comment upon voyagers. You
negate your own point because there you are writing when you are not
writers.

Absurd? You bet. And so is the argument that one must be a voyager in order
to comment on voyaging. Or a cruiser in order to comment upon cruising. Or
living aboard in order to comment upon living aboard. And so it goes . . .

Wilbur Hubbard