Dwight I was in Lunenburg in May and I was humbled by the monument to those lost at sea over the last 100+ years. For those who haven't seen it every soul is listed for every year. In 1926 for example 43 sailors perished, sometimes 4 or 5 from the same family. Probably a large percentage of the community in that year. The tragedy must have been unbelievable. And yet they kept on fishing because it was their livelihood.
Each year the list gets shorter and shorter until in the late 1990s and 2000s there is one very few years. The last date a soul was lost was 2004. We can be thankful for the increases in boating safety and the technology we depend on but we should never forget where we came from and we should never take even one death for granted. The Bounty sinking was completely unnecessary no matter how you slice it. Steve Hood S/V Diamond Girl C&C 34 Lions Head ON ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:37:47 -0300 From: dwight veinot <dwightvei...@hfx.eastlink.ca> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Bounty sinking today Message-ID: <A15FE668979C4388902FE2A3DF3CD3A2@your4dacd0ea75> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The American search and rescue teams seem to have been first rate.if not this thing might have been worse.being a Bluenoser who grew up in Lunenburg I know just how mean and dangerous the ocean can be.I hate to hear of lives lost at sea and there have been many and to lose crewmembers and a ship like HMS Bounty which had no real good reason to be out there at all this time is unfathomable. I hate this story and want it to end. Dwight Veinot C&C 35 MKII, Alianna Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS _____ _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
