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From: Capt. D.E. Morehouse (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 17:34:11 EST
By comparison as well; the actual number
of encounters with containers adrift,
whales a'floatin', reefs uncharted,
and on and on..... are quite as rare
as the chance encounter with a band
of waterborne brigands.....
The point being?
These things all do exist.... many do have
tales of horrific content to tell of them.
To ignore or wave off the possibility of
such events is foolish.
Always sail under the flag of "worst case
scenario"......
Or you may end up as the fellow who dove into
the water to find a safe channel for his vessel
into a lagoon...... his wife at the helm hollered:
"What do you see, Honey?"........ his reply was"
"Croc!"
The native tribesmen brought his body back from
the Croc den the next day.
Ignorance is bliss..... yet when the schoolbell rings?
It is oft well too late.
I, for one, never considered it even a remote possibility
that a waterspout created as two squall lines converged
could ever strike my 40' sloop..... yet it did....... & lifted her
bow into the air....tried to steal her dinghy.... and toyed
with her rigging~ parting an aft lower shroud.
Never did I ever consider it remotely possible that while under
power & making 8 knots a'sea in another vessel of mine: an 88 ton
Trawler.... that I could be boarded without being aware of the intruder.
Yet a 22 foot skiff drove up to her stern....placed her bow against the hull,
and the armed man climbed aboard and snuck past a 160 lb Sicilian Mastiff,
an ex Navy Seal (the engineer)..... under 11 halogen brightlights on deck....
up to the wheelhouse door to surprise the helm watch!
Paranoia may also be considered pragmatic reasoning.
Or one may just go along whistlin' Dixie until luck runs out.
Oh... & the best SS welders are to be found on the Miami River.
Capt.Morehouse
Sloop Makari
Cayo Hueso
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