Lake Michigan Claims Another

[dongreerps]

Lake Michigan can get rough. I still vividly remember many decades ago leaving Monroe Street Harbor Friday afternoon for a race to Green Bay. Weather deteriorated. Very Early Saturday morning the skipper put out a Mayday - "we were sinking" Coast Guard came back on the radio - obviously a pimply faced recruit "Yacht *** we have your Mayday. You are number 17 in line. We'll get to you when we can."

[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by Hyperion

And that added to this thread in what way??

Ummm... typos can confuse people trying to read the thread....

[T34C]

Originally Posted by Goodnewsboy

The sea administers its own competency tests. Best be prepared.

I think you meant Natural Selection administers its own competency tests.

[Goodnewsboy]

No, actually I didn't. Implicit in the concept of natural selection is the notion that some few are always capable of meeting a challenge and surviving.

The sea is ever capable of putting us in a circumstance nobody can survive, and that is what inspires the awe and fascination we have for it.

I say again, best be prepared.

[sailingdog]

In this case it was the lake... not the sea... but large bodies of water are all the same... take things for granted and you'll find out hard bad things can get.

[Giulietta]

I'm telling you, an no one believes....God gives them life...Mother nature sorts them out.....