"Steve Firth" <%steve%@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Gregory Hall <greghall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> In the meantime you Brit yachties should consider staying ashore. Many
of
>> you need rescuing every other time you embark so why take the chance of
>> being on your own?
>
> <yawn>
>
> Your trolling would be of a higher standard if you had a clue what you
> talking about.
>
> In the USA you have a clueless and largely ineffective Coastguard
> attempting recues, when they attempt to recover someone from the water,
> particularly using a highwire transer to a helicopter they look like,
> and are, complete sodding amateurs. In the UK rescues are performed by a
> number of services, including the coastguard, RNLI, Navy and RAF. The
> RNLI is almost 100% volunteer, and they make your coastguard look like
> amateurs. With the RNLI to hand, no one need fear the consequences of a
> coastguard strike/work to rule.
Point well taken. But the sheer quantity and size of your rescue forces
for
such a small kingdom indicates an amateur fleet of sailors with few or no
offshore skills. Why else would there be a pressing need for myriad rescue
forces?
But, I think your point is one most of the world is familiar with. Just
about every real sailor has heard or read about the carnage that occurred
at
the Fastnet race from a little old force 10 and your former colony isn't
far
behind with their ineptitude as evidenced more than once in the
Sydney-Hobart race series mass founderings.
This kind of thing is unheard of in the United States of America where a
need for such a mass rescue is unheard of. This all means superior sailors
easily get by with minimal rescue services.
Gregory Hall
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