Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help A Lousy Sailor

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"Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help A Lousy Sailor"

- by John Edwardson
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For thousands of years men have sailed the seas. From the
earliest trips by the discoverers and settlers of the
Americas, Australia and the Pacific Islands, through
Odysseus' voyage to Troy and beyond to the time of
Swashbucklers in the Caribbean mankind has made exciting
voyages to the far corners of the world.

In those early days hard cold steel and brass protected the
men and their ships. Today we have boat insurance, GPS
systems, sonar and underwater charts.

While boat insurance is not as glamorous as a fancy cutlass
nor as exciting as a cannon it does offer the boat owner
something that all the cutlasses and cannons cannot. It
can replace your ship if you lose it. In the wild and
wooly days of wooden ships and iron men you usually needed
one ship to steal another.

Why not just sail away or blast somebody to flinders if
they are trying to steal your boat?

I must make a confession; I make a terrible sailor. I am
one of those people that Dramamine was invented for. I get
seasick watching a pirate movie or riding a Washington
State Ferry, that is hardly a rough ride at sea.

It is usually as steady as a stroll in the park. When my
family goes for a good time on the water I am waving
merrily from the shore. Why an I happy? I know that my
family will be safe; they use life vests, weather radio and
GPS and have boat insurance.

I on the other hand will not be 'feeding the fishes' and
watching the roll of the horizon waiting for the next
'heave ho'.

As a young man I was fascinated by everything related to
the sea. Vikings and their ocean riding serpents, pirates
and their magnificent galleons, the US Navy and their
valiant ships of steel were all fodder for my young
imagination.

I loved to dream about the time of cannons and cold steel
when men were men and lived by the code of the sea. Now we
have the GPS, sonar and boat insurance. Still I make a
lousy sailor.
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