Great post, Ralph. Thanks for writing it up --- and great note-taking skills, what with all the distractions you probably had while watching! I'm reading a book that is starting to relate to the PaddleWise discussion on "experience": Martin Dugard's "Knockdown" --- the story of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart sailing race in which just about anything that could go wrong did. And it's all about risk management, along with the bluewater sailing ethic, Aussie machoism and other interesting dynamics. Vaguely reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm", a much better written book and the reconstruction of the collision of three big storms off the Grand Banks a few years back. Either one makes great reading while the Kokatat Drysuit dries! No red bathing suits in either one, as I recall. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Nov 07 1999 - 17:12:30 PST
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