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Nanny or not, I'll put up with any amount of hissy fits (tho it'd only be one per person - no second chances!) about being made to wear a harness rather than having to explain to the Coroner & crew's missus why I didn't insist...
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A few days ago I watched a couple of corpses (wrapped in white shrouds and on stretchers) being wheeled up the gangplank of the Norderney lifeboat to a waiting ambulance, which was moored just in front of us. I don't know what happened, but this was after a very stiff Northerly which had made impressive breakers on the Norderney beach, I was glad I wasn't trying to get through the seegat that day. It was a sobering sight to accompany my breakfast, no doubt even more sobering for the lifeboat crew who had to fish the bodies out of the water.
Better to postpone/cancel the race where necessary. If people want to sail out into it anyway, no one's going to stop them.
Nanny or not, I'll put up with any amount of hissy fits (tho it'd only be one per person - no second chances!) about being made to wear a harness rather than having to explain to the Coroner & crew's missus why I didn't insist...
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A few days ago I watched a couple of corpses (wrapped in white shrouds and on stretchers) being wheeled up the gangplank of the Norderney lifeboat to a waiting ambulance, which was moored just in front of us. I don't know what happened, but this was after a very stiff Northerly which had made impressive breakers on the Norderney beach, I was glad I wasn't trying to get through the seegat that day. It was a sobering sight to accompany my breakfast, no doubt even more sobering for the lifeboat crew who had to fish the bodies out of the water.
Better to postpone/cancel the race where necessary. If people want to sail out into it anyway, no one's going to stop them.
