On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:40:15PM -0400, Marce Schulz wrote:
>
> I'm with you, Ben. On a hellish passage from Bermuda where everything
> broke, half the crew were sick and we ran out of propane, we abandoned
> the watch schedule and all pitched in where we could. Bad move. No one
> was sharp enough to pilot safely and we experienced one close call
> after another. Luckily we arrived in one piece but we vowed never
> again to do a passage of any length without a firm watch schedule.
Yow - I'm glad you made it through. I've occasionally ended up in those
situations despite my best efforts, and... honestly, people see those
times when "only true grit will pull you through" as something heroic...
I see them as either a *horrible* result of poor planning, or at best, a
sequence of bad luck. When you're flat on your back like that, all it
takes is one bad break - and you've already seen a sequence of them, so
it's likely that more are on the way. I like to build a lot more safety
than that - "defense in depth", as we used to refer to it back in my
Army days - into the "interesting" times in my life. Trying to live
without risk will make you a failure - but taking risks without fallback
planning will make you a corpse.
> Marce the Structured
"Me 'at's off to th'Duke". :) "Structured" is what I often try to be,
with mixed success.
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