Joined
·
9,286 Posts
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL CRUISERS;
"Five people were killed in a late night knife attack at a house party in Calgary, police in the Canadian city have said." Wow, that could have been on a yacht!
We must now add Canada to the list of "dangerous" places where we shouldn't sail. And it's NOT even in that tropical belt some of you have mentioned!
However, this article has made me ponder, and I think I have finally figured out a safe way to cruise;
I've decided to buy a small piece of land in Iowa or somewhere near a corn field. I'm going to build a 90' fence (I'm sure 80 would do, but just to be safe, 90'), with a moat and draw bridge at the gate, and security cameras galore, to be sure.
Then I'll have a double Olympic size pool built inside the fence and have my 50' sailboat trucked up from Fla. I'll live aboard, sailing from one side of the pool to the other each day, ending up back on my mooring each night. In the evenings, just before we start dinner and well before the sun sets, we'll lock ourselves in with metal bars on the companionway and all the hatches. This should keep us safe, should the fence, security system and armed guards fail to do so.
Oh, thank you, all you sailneters, for alerting us to the dangers out there in the big bad world, for us cruisers.
"Five people were killed in a late night knife attack at a house party in Calgary, police in the Canadian city have said." Wow, that could have been on a yacht!
We must now add Canada to the list of "dangerous" places where we shouldn't sail. And it's NOT even in that tropical belt some of you have mentioned!
However, this article has made me ponder, and I think I have finally figured out a safe way to cruise;
I've decided to buy a small piece of land in Iowa or somewhere near a corn field. I'm going to build a 90' fence (I'm sure 80 would do, but just to be safe, 90'), with a moat and draw bridge at the gate, and security cameras galore, to be sure.
Then I'll have a double Olympic size pool built inside the fence and have my 50' sailboat trucked up from Fla. I'll live aboard, sailing from one side of the pool to the other each day, ending up back on my mooring each night. In the evenings, just before we start dinner and well before the sun sets, we'll lock ourselves in with metal bars on the companionway and all the hatches. This should keep us safe, should the fence, security system and armed guards fail to do so.
Oh, thank you, all you sailneters, for alerting us to the dangers out there in the big bad world, for us cruisers.