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To: SmoothSail who wrote (25344)	2/5/2003 10:57:57 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 57110

LOL!!!!! he went beyond what would be described as "prudent" Actually, it's amazing any of us make it to adulthood. When I look back on some of the DUMB things I did as a kid that could have killed me.... And not just as a kid. I used to race a sailboat on northern San Francisco Bay. If you're familiar with the area, you know what that means: cold, wet, and STRONG, gusty, shifty winds. I'd get home and take a shower and find cuts and bruises I couldn't remember getting. Bruises 6, 8 inches across. How can you not notice THAT? And once I looked out under the jib.... and saw this 65-foot monster bearing down on us at full speed- -about 12 knots. I had never believed that "your life flashes before your eyes" bit but it did. I thought we were DEAD. He couldn't see us because we were behind his jib too. I grab the stick (tiller) from the helmsman and SHOVED. He resisted and I SHOUTED something at him; I don't remember what. He let go and let me steer. At one point in passing, the two boats were less than 6 inches apart. We were in a 26-footer. He would have blown our boat to kindling had he hit us. I quit racing soon after that. GLOBEX in submarine mode.

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