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Sure, I don't disagree with that...
In Response To: "Happens to the best of them", so the "best of you" get a bye? 
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() However, there are many times where 'Luck' - for want of a better word - might come into play... For example, if one happens to hit a submerged shipping container in the middle of an ocean, at night, I'm not sure it's really fair to say he "screwed up"...
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- darn that chartplotter!!!!!
- I don't know for sure, of course, but I suspect the captain was below, face glued to his screen,....
- No rock, heres what the emergency management coordinator says:
- Asleep??? What kind of error is that?
- Yup, that would have been my guess...
- Sleeping while the boat approaches washing ashore... who could it happen to?
- Before todays Garmin programmed sailors began piling up on rocks and beaches,
- LMAO! Hey, I have never gone to sleep on my boat while on a course closing with a coastline...
- Before todays Garmin programmed sailors began piling up on rocks and beaches,
- Sleeping while the boat approaches washing ashore... who could it happen to?
- Asleep??? What kind of error is that?
- No rock, heres what the emergency management coordinator says:
- I heard it's expensive to park at the casinos
- There is a Tow Boat attempting pull it off now
- I don't know for sure, of course, but I suspect the captain was below, face glued to his screen,....