| "Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help A Lousy
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| | terrible sailor. I am one ofthose people
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| Sailor"
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| | that Dramamine was invented for. I get
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| - by John Edwardson
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| | seasick watchinga pirate movie or riding
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| For thousands of years men have sailed
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| | a Washington State Ferry, that is hardly
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| the seas. From the earliesttrips by the
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| | arough ride at sea.
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| discoverers and settlers of the Americas,
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| | It is usually as steady as a stroll in
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| Australia andthe Pacific Islands, through
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| | the park. When my family goesfor a good
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| Odysseus' voyage to Troy and beyond tothe
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| | time on the water I am waving merrily
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| time of Swashbucklers in the Caribbean
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| | from the shore. Whyan I happy? I know
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| mankind has made excitingvoyages to the
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| | that my family will be safe; they use
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| far corners of the world.
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| | life vests,weather radio and GPS and have
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| In those early days hard cold steel and
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| | boat insurance.
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| brass protected the men andtheir ships.
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| | I on the other hand will not be 'feeding
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| Today we have boat insurance, GPS
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| | the fishes' and watching theroll of the
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| systems, sonar andunderwater charts.
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| | horizon waiting for the next 'heave ho'.
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| While boat insurance is not as glamorous
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| | As a young man I was fascinated by
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| as a fancy cutlass nor asexciting as a
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| | everything related to the sea.
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| cannon it does offer the boat owner
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| | Vikings and their ocean riding serpents,
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| something that allthe cutlasses and
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| | pirates and theirmagnificent galleons,
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| cannons cannot. It can replace your ship
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| | the US Navy and their valiant ships of
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| if youlose it. In the wild and wooly
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| | steelwere all fodder for my young
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| days of wooden ships and iron men
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| | imagination.
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| youusually needed one ship to steal
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| | I loved to dream about the time of
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| another.
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| | cannons and cold steel when menwere men
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| Why not just sail away or blast somebody
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| | and lived by the code of the sea. Now we
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| to flinders if they aretrying to steal
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| | have the GPS, sonarand boat insurance.
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| your boat?
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| | Still I make a lousy sailor.
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| I must make a confession; I make a
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