Shit does, after all, happen...

These days it is not just fans of "Firefly" that see the need to learn some Chinese, banks don't just get bail outs they're also caring, and Captain Fogg is even more depressed about things than I am (can you imagine?)...

Currently the cruising cyberworld is buzzing about a couple who are stranded someplace because the engine died on their sailboat and apparently they don't have the sailing chops to actually sail where they want to go.

Scary...

Every once in awhile when I see that the hate mail has slowed down to a trickle, I have the insane urge to write something about how folks sailing boats should have the skills set to be able to pick up a mooring, sail to windward to get into an anchorage or, just possibly, be able to figure out where they are if their electronics on board have a catastrophic clusterfuck. After all, shit does happen from time to time, but my pointing it out really does seem to piss people off...

The thing is, I applaud the couple in question because they have the courage to voice the fact that they simply are not prepared to go to sea. Hopefully this experience will also be the sort of thing that makes a few people think that spending a few days learning to actually sail and sorting out what is actually needful to go cruising is no bad thing...

Maybe someone will even give this couple a copy of "Sea-Steading" which, if they had actually taken the time to read it or something of similar ilk, they would not find themselves stranded...

Listening to Taj Mahal

So it goes...