Reminds me of the adage: schedules sink more boats than anything else.

The decision to go in the face of issues is a difficult one. A professional captain feels obligated to to do what he was hired to do, he may do something he would never would have done on his own boat.

We just lost a 7?? foot freighter and 33 souls because the captain chose to go into a tropical storm that escalated to a hurricane.

How many times have we gone out in marginal weather for an afternoon sail because we had friends coming?

Glad everything turned out OK.

A successful voyage is one where you return to port with the same (or more ) people than you started with.