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Don Street used to have his finger on those stats 
In Response To: Because cruise ships and merchant vessels have been taking up much of the slack, perhaps... ? (grin) ()
because he was in the insurance business.
That's one of the reasons he advises so strongly against sailing south from New England via Bermuda in the fall except on a big boat . . .
Don says he stopped counting after 40 of his friends/acquaintances were lost on that route over the years.
Before EPIRBs and satcom, nobody knew you were missing until it was too late.
Without some kind of detailed analysis, I don't think we could possibly say whether more or fewer boats are getting into trouble . . . tho we do certainly hear about those that do.
I'd like to see a breakdown of the boats that get into trouble and why, and what kinds of boat get into what kind of trouble.
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- Yet another boat lost.
- And, yet another rescue...
- And another . . .
- Damn, the Newport-Bermuda race crews are gonna have to keep an extra-sharp lookout this year...
- successfull Atlantic Crossing
- UK Search and Rescues stats show their trend of rescues is down, just like USCG's.
- Because cruise ships and merchant vessels have been taking up much of the slack, perhaps... ? (grin)
- Imagine for discussion purposes, these two vast go'ment agencies, and their reems of records,
- Don Street used to have his finger on those stats
- Imagine for discussion purposes, these two vast go'ment agencies, and their reems of records,
- Because cruise ships and merchant vessels have been taking up much of the slack, perhaps... ? (grin)
- successfull Atlantic Crossing
- Taking on one gallon per hour? Strange
- Despite the recent rash of offshore silboat rescues,
- Damn, the Newport-Bermuda race crews are gonna have to keep an extra-sharp lookout this year...
- And another . . .
- And, yet another rescue...
