<salty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:elv304ta1s6kckq1hraqknqreo71lgeiee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:53:01 -0700, "Capt. JG" <jganz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>"JimC" <avocat5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:OHeMj.8414$2g1.5463@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Actually, Neal, that would have been a good choice. To cite just one
>>> factor, if Joe had been sailing a Mac26M, with its positive
floatation,
>>> the boat would have survived and wouldn't have been dragged to the
>>> bottom
>>> by its keel. And of course, if you had a Mac (instead of your
>>> no-boat-at-all), you could spend more time sailing and less time
posting
>>> childish, vacuous notes on this ng. But of course, you didn't make a
>>> decision to get a Mac or a decision to get anything else for that
>>> matter,
>>> so we can look forward to more of your never-ending sophistry.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>>
>>Neal is an idiot, but besides that, if you were on your Mac in the
>>conditions Joe described, you would surely be a greater idiot than Neal
>>(even he isn't suicidal).
>>
>>Assuming the boat can't sink (which I seriously doubt - given the
pounding
>>it would endure, it would likely break up), it would be dismasted for
>>sure.
>>Then, (not that sailing would have ever been an option), your only
chance
>>for survival would be below decks, while the boat rolled over and over
and
>>over, perhaps even pitchpolling from time to time. It would be like
being
>>in
>>a wa****ng machine with heavy and sharp objects. You'd find yourself in a
>>non-habitable environment of flying hazards including yourself that
would
>>break your bones into mush. In desperation to escape, you would vacate
the
>>premises, and then either be thrown off the boat by the wave action or
you
>>would remove yourself from the boat deliberately. Either way, you
wouldn't
>>survive.
>
> How would a Mac26M ever get 200 miles off the Texas coast, especially if
> the
> starting point was Belize?
>
>
On top of a delivery ****p?
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"j" ganz @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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