On 3/14/2013 4:22 PM, Gogarty wrote:
>>>>> Having lost our boat last summer I can certainly empathise.
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>>>>
>>>> WHAT????
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>>> Seems clear enough. As in empathy?
>>>
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>> Sorry. I understand the statement well enough.
>> But I've not been hanging out here for the last year and hadn't heard.
>>
>> Yes, empathy, for sure.
>>
>> What happened?
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> Little navigational error that put us on rocks in a hard grounding
> instead of in the tricky channel. Total constructive loss. Read all about
> it in the February 2013 issue of Messing About in Boats. I can really,
> really feel for those people who will become way too familiar with
> somebody else's V-berth. Twenty eight years of sailboats gone. Insurance
> payments do not compensate for the physical loss.
>
My condolences.
I'll look it up.
I hope no one was hurt.
But it could happen to anyone (except Wilbur, of course)