"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin

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I do not agree that no matter how experienced you become that there is a chance of something that will always go wrong. There are a number of yachtsmen and fisherman and seafarers who conduct long hard passages and spend their lifes at sea and would be horrified at the thought of something going wrong. These people have track records over many years at sea of nothing going wrong. When in conversations and yarns about incidents at sea they have nothing to contribute because they do not do something going wrong. I sincerely hope that there are many Airline pilots who can say the same.

 

[Alfie168]

I do not agree that no matter how experienced you become that there is a chance of something that will always go wrong. There are a number of yachtsmen and fisherman and seafarers who conduct long hard passages and spend their lifes at sea and would be horrified at the thought of something going wrong. These people have track records over many years at sea of nothing going wrong. When in conversations and yarns about incidents at sea they have nothing to contribute because they do not do something going wrong. I sincerely hope that there are many Airline pilots who can say the same.

Tell that to the master of the Titanic.

Tim

 

[alan_d]

I have not misunderstood.

Alas, the rest of your post suggests the opposite.

I didn't need to hear his tedious nonsense the first time, we know there are things he did and didn't know, we also know he deliberately mislead the public to fulfill his own agenda, it was a very lame effort, a miserable excuse and besides that it is totally unnecessary to tell anyone there are things we don't know, and I don't think it is worth quoteing here. There are things we don't know, yes that is true but is it really necessary to repeat that to anyone with a brain.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Re MJCoon . Bunking in with the captain I would hope he wasn't tooo adaptable.
Mogy, British Steel is here in Dartmouth for the regatta, still looks the business but for me Chay, Shane Acton and others ex forces were real inspiration because they all understood that it all starts within, a mindset if you like, the rest is details and endlessly learning and experiencing by getting out there and doing it.
British Steel really does look still a sexy powerful weatherly machine though!

British Steel lives here, that's her permanent mooring. Never goes to sea. We're on the same trot.

 

[fisherman]

An old fisherman's favourite saying; 'Experience is a dear school, and a fool learns in no other'.

You can always tell an old fisherman, but you can't tell him very much....