Good article. I'll be reading more of Mr. Boothby (and not just because I'm a frustrated wood boat crank myself).
W/R/T the Costa Concordia (as well as more recent events, such as the daylight attack on the elderly woman in NYC in which the witnessing doorman or security guard merely closed the door): "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise."
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I highly recommend his videos if you have any interest in seamanship. His boat is pretty interesting; it's basically a Southern Cross 31 which is a very well thought of bluewater sailboat. Except his was originally sold as a bare hull, and the guy who purchased it completed her as a traditionally rigged gaff cutter, sans engine. Kevin purchased it after the original owner's death and sailed around the world. Although discretion being the better part of valor, he had her trucked across the southwestern US rather than do Cape Horn upwind, since you can't do the canal without an engine.
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"People come and go in our lives, especially the online ones. Some leave a fond memory, and some a bad taste." -Aesop
So just in a zoom meeting where two marketing guys were taking credit for a new product we are launching that I literally have a patent pending on (the company owns it obviously). We are going to have an interesting conversation later this afternoon.
