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Richard Gilbert's avatar

Wow! These sailors will have sea stories to tell while they’re sharing their Dark and Stormys. To put the dismanting in perspective, the masts on those big boats are as tall or taller as more than two-thirds the length of an NBA basketball court, or slightly longer than the distance from the pitcher’s mound to home plate at Wrigley Field. In those seas the wreckage is very hard to handle in the dark from a pitching deck!

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Been there, done that. I worked the foredeck on a 37 foot boat for 20 years. Looking back, the storms were actually fun. I have hoped for lightening at times just so I could see what I was doing. Takes a special person to do this, but as I say, it was fun. Most of the macs are not like this

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