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To: Tom M who wrote (123693)	9/19/2001 1:21:26 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 436258

Hi Tom; <OT> I saw the film and enjoyed it , while some of it was overly dramatize in ways I considered foolish ( being an old fisherman ) it captured the sprit and life style much better than I ever thought they could. -------------- (1) The fish ( stabalizer ) on the end of the out rigger hitting the windows.. ( those are lowered via fat boy blocks with a stopper on the end and the chain is not left long enough to let it hit the boat. ) (2) No one can hang onto an out rigger that has broken it's hold down chain and is jumping up and down. (3) They left out the one thing that most likely had the most to do with her sinking. ( She was just about at the end of her trip and the fuel tanks were low enough that the sludge in the bottom of the tanks which is below the suction lines gets washed around so much in heavy seas when the tanks are low; and it mixes with the fuel and you get to where you can't change fuel filters fast enough to keep the engines running. In short she most likely finally lost her engines from stopped up fuel fiters and couldn't even pump out.) Most often the fight to survive in a storm winds up in the engine room or back in the rudder room. And that could have been dramatized better and more realistic than the outrigger thingy. --------------- Now about the market, the early sell off today worried me as not only was it falling fast; the VIX was moving lower at the same time, well the VIX reversed and moved up now so I don't think it's as bad as it first looked. The vix has to stay high for several days & not just pop down on the first sign of a bounce..I want to see the VIX go up faster than the market drops and hang above 30 for a while , I want to see a rally every one doubts & not one where the bulls quickly through caution to the wind, other wise we just keep sinking deeper into the quicksand. Jim