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The Times today reports a yacht with two adults and two teenage children on board as having called for assistance in the Aegean. They were sailing Siros-Kea, had started in a force 6 which became a gale. The yacht got a rope round her screw. It was a new sailing yacht.
Now this is open sea. There is a circle surrounded by steep-to islands with good gaps between them. Nowhere in this circle is one more than about 20 miles from shelter, even if it only a lee. There was nothing else wrong with the boat.
Now, this article was written by a professional journalist, and I suggest that it typifies what is wrong with having professional journalists write yachting stories. If written by a yachtsman, it would have been informative. This one merely posed more questions than it gave information.
What else was wrong with that yacht? There must have been something; the report said that the owner was experienced.
Now this is open sea. There is a circle surrounded by steep-to islands with good gaps between them. Nowhere in this circle is one more than about 20 miles from shelter, even if it only a lee. There was nothing else wrong with the boat.
Now, this article was written by a professional journalist, and I suggest that it typifies what is wrong with having professional journalists write yachting stories. If written by a yachtsman, it would have been informative. This one merely posed more questions than it gave information.
What else was wrong with that yacht? There must have been something; the report said that the owner was experienced.