Re: Most life-threatening situation


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Posted by Ed Kiser on September 18, 2006 at 15:28:26 from 152.163.101.7 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Most life-threatening situation posted by Prue Eckett on September 18, 2006 at 10:45:18:

The potential for disaster started right at the beginning, with a 7 year old boy that did not know how to swim, setting forth in a sailboat over deep water, a boat that was heavily loaded with minimum freeboard, where not much of a tilt would start shipping water (sailboats DO TIP), a boat that with its ballast, will sink if filled with water, and there were no floatation devices, no life jacket, no floating cushions. Sounds rather much like duffers to me, not to mention that if some disaster had happened, Mrs. Walker would have been subject to criminal negligence in allowing such a voyage to ever start.

The lawyers of today would have had a field day with that one.

I'm glad they did start out anyway, with no disaster, or we would have had to do without all these years...

Ed Kiser, Kentucky


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