[Ramius]

I don't know that there's HATE in your comments specifically, but there certainly is on this thread.

I think the coasties in this story are being unfairly painted and I'm rising to their defense. That's all.

I too have spent a lot of time in the gulf of Alaska, the Bering and above the arctic circle. I've been to Dutch, and St Paul, and Adak and lots of other places. I know what an eighty foot wave looks like up close and personal. :-)

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Yes I agree that some folks just hate authority of any kind.

I am guilty of dismissing these folk's plaintive cries and whimpering out of hand. It's a bad habit to just ignore them, but I'm just a man, and they get me kinda angry if I listen to them.

It IS a shock to the lubber brain to ask them to understand that the instant you set foot upon the deck, the world is a different place, and that the rules, and laws, and customs of the sea, are NOT those of the land.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I think the coasties in this story are being unfairly painted and I'm rising to their defense. That's all.

Some people apparently have a problem with any kind of authority.