On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:51:26 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

How is sailing failure defined?

Let me count the ways.

1) Joe of Red Cloud infamy
2) Bruce at the Bangkok dock
3) Capt. J.G. the netKKKop
4) Bobsprit the dreamer
5) Doug King the trawler queen
6) Sea Hag the chronic builder
7) Katysails the blind (in more ways than one)
8) Dave the lawyer who doesn't even own a boat
9) KCL Lewis the admiral
10) Bob the wannabe deck hand

Failure is serious injury to the crew or boat. Everything else is just
the half of all luck that is bad. Leaving it tied to the dock is not
failure, it isn't even sailing. Going out and not coming back is
failure.Schedual failure shouldn't concern yachts, beyond being fast
enough to go south for the winter.

Casady