At 03:13 AM 11/7/99 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote: >in proportion to the extent we regularly test our skills. And, if we are >truly *testing* our skills, we are sometime, somewhere, gonna have an >"incident." The guy who hugged the buoy could have been one of us. I think >it is good to parse out what happened, and what mistakes he might have made, >*if we do it with a grain of humility.* The tut-tut crowd should cut the buoy >guy some slack, is what tomckayak is saying, I believe. I think of all the rationalizing or the "I wouldn't have done thats" you hear on rec.boat.paddle at a death or a near miss. Sort of sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. I think we're above that here. -- Wes *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Nov 08 1999 - 17:36:42 PST
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