04-02-2008
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Well said HS... hunches are usually your subconscious mind trying to keep your conscious mind from doing something really dumb. 
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Originally Posted by hellosailor
Billy, I'd say that sometimes you have to listen to an inner voice. If you are CERTAIN, without any doubts, that there are no hazardous conditions and no need for localknowledge and again CERTAIN that you can make it in, by all means go for it.
But if there is any uncertainty, any nagging feeling that you are missing something, any information you don't have (like tides, in an inlet known for current problems)...you have to err on the safe side and wait it out.
Little things like those semi-submerged breakwaters are infamous for eating boats, in many harbors, but unless you have local knowledge or a good chart, you may be boat that hits them that year. Absent local knowledge or a reliable pilot of some kind...night can make even a simple MOB into a difficult recovery. you know the line from Dirty Harry?
"Do ya feel lucky today? Do ya?"
It's like reefing: If you have to ask, you should have already done it. |
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Sailingdog
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity (slightly edited)
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