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You pussy! One of the benefits of a shallow draft boat: you can sail a lot of places where you don't need a lifejacket, you can just wade ashore! BTW I got used to wearing a PFD all the time racing small tippy boats. Good habit to get in, just like wearing seat belts in cars. FB- Doug

You can legislate training but you cannot legislate skills. You can make equipment mandatory but you cannot legislate good judgement. It is impossible to buy "safety" on your Master Card. That is one thing that people constantly forget, although there is a large amount of lobbying/advertising...

My own tendency is to assume that I'm the smartest guy in the room, or at least in the upper quartile. Instead of rescue, I prefer other boats leave me the fuck alone and not run me down trying to "help." What I saw in the video was a boat marginally under control themselves, they were not...

My sympathy to the families of those lost, this is really a tragedy. It's an even bigger tragedy in that it could have been avoided. I dunno where you all have been sailing, but I've been in more fronts and squalls and really-sudden-bad-weather than I can remember. Sometimes it's not all that...