a guy and maybe I've had to learn how jury rig more often then maybe I should have but that ability is pretty essential for off shore sailing. I'm kind of a cover my ass guy as well. Cutting a cooling system apart and making an engine run on salt water is pretty basic. Taking stock of everything on a sailboat and not being able to come up with something that would work just doesn't seem right. It couldn't have been that hard. A little time spent thinking out of the box is sometimes well worth the effort. Granted, it no fun and sometimes it even easier to just say screw it and sail the boat. The down side to that is what they call N minus 1". That's, for the uninformed, normal minus one. I like everything on my boat working, all of the time. If it isn't then I spend the time making it work. Sometimes that's just not going to happen but you can bet your ass that I will have beat it to death getting to that realization. No stone left.... as they say. My position is that sailing the boat may be fine today but I don't know about tomorrow so I'm going to cover my butt as well as I can. It's not that I fear the unknown it's just that I respect it.