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Now hold on here Mates. You say he sank in 60 ft of water. So he must have
towed the sailboat through about 8 feet of water to hit a pipeline. (Unless
I don't understand California pipelines.) My nautical instincts tell me he
was doomed primarily by reckless navigation, not by improper placing of
survival gear. It therefore follows that we captains should assume we are
going to screw up the most basic nautical operations and move our survival
gear about the boat to compensate. If that were the case in aviation, all
passengers would be wearing parachutes. As a recently deceased (natural
causes) friend of mine always said, "There is no cure for stupidity." No
argument about the knife.
Zeke Anderson
Texas Cookin'
Rockport Tx
> Mike,
> Good point. I have to tell you though that there was nothing unusual
about
> the job he was doing. I do many, many similar tows every week. We all
think
> he hit the Hyperion pipeline with the sailboat's keel. If so, he was
> definitely in error by being in too close. Also it doesn't do any good to
> have the proper gear on the boat if you can't get to it in time. That's
why
> any good captain....especially on a commercial assistance boat willl keep
a
> SHARP knife on his belt were he can get to it quickly. If he could have
cut
> his line he only would have lost the sailboat. The loss of line and hook
is
> a cheap one.
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. Whatever happened to that CD you had?
>
>
