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Faure, Marin wrote:
> The rumor is that it's really beautiful cruising country from Puget
> Sound to SE Alaska, the best on the planet. What most people don't know
> is that this rumor is fostered by the local boat dealers who are
> desperate to get somebody-- anybody-- to buy a boat. In fact no one
> really knows how beautiful it is or isn't along the coast because
> between the rain and fog it is virtually impossible to see more than
> about a quarter mile in any direction. And on the rare occasions when
> the visibility increases beyond this, the permanent, unbroken cloud
> layer that hovers between 100 and 500 feet up prevents us from seeing
> much of anything. The constant rain, fog, and cloud cover is a major
> reason why the PNW has the highest suicide rate in the US. Boaters are
> a disproportionate percentage of the folks who off themselves up here.
Yeah, Marin got it about right. In 3.5 ugly and boring months on the BC
coast this summer I had to cope with at least 10-12 days of bad weather.
Richard Cook
New Moon - Bounty 257
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