[Public-List] Public-List] End of 2014

Tue Jan 6 13:11:43 PST 2015

Hello Dan - your message just got through.  My email provider's spam filter
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fixed and my apologies to anyone who has tried to reach me to no avail.  The
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Yes, Buckley had a crewmember fall overboard and drown.  He described it so
baldly that I had to go back and read it twice to catch that a life had
really been lost.  I don't think he was disrespectful, what I got from this
was that compromises in quality of gear (and crew behaviour) have huge
consequences in a yacht.  This MOB happened in New York Harbour while on an
evening charter...the fellow who died fell overboard when the wire lifeline
he was sitting on broke.   Buckley commented that the sneaking corrosion
unseen under the vinyl of the lifeline killed the man, so did his unsafe
practice of sitting on a wire whose lack of integrity could put him in the
water, so was the reaction of the crew who didn't treat the emergency as an
emergency until it was too late to save the man.

There's that cascade of consequences they teach us about in the Navy....

Gord #426

On 01/01/15 2:59 PM, "daniel joseph walker" <dsailormon at Yahoo.com> wrote:

> I read that many years back. I remember someone was washed overboard and he
> acted like it was no big deal. Correct me if I have "disremembered" that part
> but I was put off by that. Forgot the yard fees.
Dan

George Dinwiddie via
> Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>Gord,
>
>It is a good
> read. I can forgive the affluence and overlook the politics 
>(which doesn't
> appear in the book), but the description of stealing the 
>boat out of the
> yard without paying a disputed yard bill never set well 
>with me.
>
>  -
> George
>
>On 12/31/14 10:01 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
>> Good
> morning friends....
>>
>> I¹m looking forward to 2015 and hope you are
> too.....  I noted our new
>> correspondent's message about replacing toe
> rails.... I¹ve declared aloud
>> here at our house that I¹m going to declare
> war on our deck edge leaks this
>> year.  This will involve repairing the
> leaks under the six life line
>> stanchion bases as well as under the toe
> rail.  The rail is very thin from
>> decades of sanding so I¹m shaping up to
> replace it after doing a cloth tape
>> and epoxy job on the joint.   Compared
> to what I¹m doing with the wooden
>> boat this shouldn¹t be too horrible a job
> (except for getting at the genoa
>> track bolts adjacent to the second fuel
> tank I put in on the port side a few
>> years ago).
>>
>> There.  I¹ve said
> this aloud (again).  Maybe I¹ll do it this year....
>>
>> One of my sons
> bought me William F. Buckley¹s AIRBORNE, A SENTIMENTAL
>> JOURNEY for
> Christmas.  I can¹t believe I¹ve not read this great book
>> before.  I¹ve
> been aware of it since it was first published, have held a
>> copy in my hand
> in various book stores over the years, but have to admit I
>> was put off it
> three ways.  One was that reviews commented on the luxury of
>> the yacht (the
> schooner CYRANO which among other things sported a piano)
>> This offended the
> younger me with regard to a belief that one should suffer
>> when at sea.
> Another problem I had was the cover illustration, which
>> didn¹t, I thought,
> make the boat look attractive to my eye (yes, I was and
>> perhaps still am
> that picky) Last, Buckley seemed to me to represent what I
>> thought in my
> student days was an incomprehensible and distasteful political
>>
> viewpoint.
>>
>> Well I¹m most of the way through the book already, and have
> to say it¹s a
>> wonderful read.  Whatever Buckley was politically, he was a
> very witty
>> writer and his love of seamanship has overshadowed whatever it
> was that
>> repelled me thirty years ago.  I can even overlook the
> luxurious
>> appointments of his yacht.
>>
>> Hope you all have a great New
> Year¹s eve, and I¹m looking forward to sharing
>> sailing and yacht
> maintenance stories with you next year.
>>
>> Bye for now -
>>
>> Gord
>> #426
> Surprise
>>
>> PS I was driving through Burlington Ontario yesterday and saw a
> white hulled
>> A30 under a tarp on a driveway  does she belong to anyone on
> this list?
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