Skip, Sorry if I touched a raw nerve recounting Flying Pigs wrecking on the rocks requiring the USCG to airlift you off and commence salvage operations back in February of 2007. I had thought from what you said before that you were asleep below as the boat closed with the shore and reefs in bad weather during the night, and that Lydia was sick and also had laid down during her watch.
I must have mis-recollected your earlier email in February of 2007 when you blamed others, but described the act of going onto the reef as follows: "............................................Lydia wanted me to get some sleep, as the boat was sailing along at a comfortable (for me) 5.6 under triple reef, again still far from anything. So, she took over and I went to the aft berth where the motion, while substantial, was easy and thus was of no issue, and I slept soundly. What I couldn't have known was that she was very uncomfortable, nearly seasick, and rather than standing watch, was on the saloon sole, popping up every few minutes, looking around, trying to make sense of the chartplotter which - since she'd not been monitoring it, and making range adjustments to look ahead and also in detail at where we were headed by zooming in along the intended route - she really couldn't comprehend, worsened by her physical state." . . . Skip . . . It still maintain it was a tenderfoot move & the high point of stupidity (IMHO only) for someone not authorized or requested to do so to contact the USCG S&R folks, despite your recollection of how much they enjoy rescuing you. <Grin> Ed Kelly on Angel Louise in Curacao (south of the Hurricane Box) -- Ed Kelly sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m Skype Cell telephone: 202-657-6357 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
