On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:11:38PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Item 132 Hazardous Bars.
[...]
> Then again, maybe they were referring to places such as The Elbow Room in
> Dutch Harbor AK, supposedly one of the ten roughest bars in the world.
Most sailors fetch up on that Mahogany Reef sooner or later - and it's
always Force 12 as you tack away from there; the deck pitches and rolls
like mad. Many a good mariner has lost his lunch upon those shoals.
> I did survive that one - barely. I asked a native woman there if she was an
> Eskimo - not a good move - but she did let me live with a stern warning. I
> am such a lucky man...
Wow - that's *really* taking your life in your hands. This "crossing the
Pacific" stuff doesn't even rate.
:)
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