I took the comment as satire indicating the Lat 38 editorial staff felt the American media should have acknowledged the loss of live and damage in the Caribbean.
One of the Lat 38 owners has a boat or two based in the Caribbean and is often a cheerleader for the sail/charter industry there. Martin ________________________________ From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Kilgour Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Bounty sinking today That Latitude 38 first sentence is pretty offensive if you think about it. 69 people die in the Caribbean but the official death toll doesn't start until the American media starts paying attention? I suspect they don't mean to come across as American-centric insensitive pricks. But they did. Probably just sloppy writing. Cheers, Colin On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Colin Kilgour <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Obviously financial pressures took over here. If you look at their FB postings from Oct 25, it was clear that they knew about the storm before heading out. Would the boat have been wrecked had they stayed in New London? Maybe... but if they'd used the last few days to secure the boat rather than sail head first into the shit, then maybe things would have turned out much better than they did. Cheers, Colin On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Frederick G Street <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Probably not -- the captain is the one who's missing. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Oct 29, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Richard Walter <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If the missing crew members are lost, there will be jail time. _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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