| Fireball |
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| 13/05/2008 11:05 |
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Re: "Liferaft" is it needed for coastal cruising in UK
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I said check your priorities!
If your priorities seem to be to ridicule anything sensible, so be it.
There you go again - in your view - having a liferaft is sensible, therefore, not having a liferaft is NOT sensible ... so you are prescribing to me that (should I wish to appear to be sensible) I should have a liferaft on board ...
My Priorities are ensuring that our vessel and crew DO NOT encounter a situation where a liferaft is required. My crew are all adults and if they wish to purchase a liferaft then they are more than welcome to suggest it - it isn't a "NO LR required" - more "We've got better/more important things to spend our money on"
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Are you saying you cross the road, without checking there isn't a big red bus about to flatten you??
No, of course not!
So, in doing so, you are equally guilty of what you stupidly call "bubblerap everything", or more formally known as "looking out for yourself".
Bolx - that isn't it at all - your analogy is checking the course and weather before setting out ... wearing a crash helmet, knee and elbow pads is just incase you haven't noticed that big red bus and try to cross anyway - at which point you are protecting yourself against your own stupidity and blindness ...
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I don't 'expect' to use my liferaft, but I personally would not want to explain to a coroner/wife/mother/child, why their loved one died, simply because my head was so far up my arse that I thought it was safer without one!
Luckily, my head isn't up my arse and I didn't assume yours was up yours either - but it seems that some ppl want to PREACH AT me ..
Guilt trips on explaining to family why you didn't have the right safety equipment really is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Can you not accept that some ppl do not do the sort of sailing that makes using a liferaft even a remote possibility?
Sticking with the solent for a moment (as that is our main sailing area) ... rescue services are within 10 minutes should the terrible really happen (you're going to need help if you take to the LR ... unless you intend to row it ashore) - I wouldn't think we'd be in the water for more than 30 minutes, and we quite often go for a swim anyway ... so no real issue there ...
as a final note ...
DO NOT assume you can PREACH AT Me.... I am an adult, I can make my own decisions based on far more detailed knowledge of my requirements than you will ever know, you are welcome to make suggestions, but don't consider me (and thousands of others) an idiot just because I don't concur with your way of thinking.