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To: KLP who wrote (64)	2/20/2006 2:00:41 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 7894

Sailing's great. Sailboat RACING on the North Bay is screaming royal B**! Everything has to be done FAST and RIGHT no matter what. I'd come home after a race, take a shower, and find bruises I didn't know about on my legs that were 6" or 8" in diameter. This was from hitting the sides of the benches in the cockpit as I jumped from one side to the other to do something. I eventually quit racing because of that sort of thing. There's a maneuver on fore and aft rigged boats (almost all new boats these days) call jibing. The wind is at your back and you swing the boat through it. The wind catches the mainsail and can hurl it with quite a bit of force. To help control that, you pull the main in as tight as possible before a jibe. It can tear the mast off if you don't. When the helmsman starts the turn, he should yell "Jibe ho!" to warn everyone to duck so they're not hit in the head by the boom. (People have been killed that way.) We had a crewman a little too find of the bottle. He didn't duck during a jibe. The boom hit him in the mouth and knocked out about half a dozen teeth. We quit the race and hailed the race committee's cruiser that patrolled the coarse. We transferred him to their small motorboat because they could get him to land and a hospital faster than we could. Not sure if that was a spider bite, but it started as a small round sore. there are lots of opportunities for getting into problems here, but at least, most of the time, the medical help is closer, and usually, very much better!* In general, third world docs are at least as dangerous as the accidents and diseases. There have been numerous mistakes, including misdiagnosing my wife's broken foot as "just a sprain". Petra? I'm staying out of that part of the world until it settles down. If it ever does. We went to Ephesus in Turkey which is also quite a site and well preserved ruin. St. Paul wrote "Letters to the Ephesians" while living there, and Jesus's mother, Mary, lived the last part of her life there and died there. Ephesus is in western Turkey, as is Troy. I recommend staying out of eastern Turkey. Much more primitive. Also, Turkey is 95% Muslim. Something to consider these days. The gov't is aggressively secular and insists on staying that way though. I have not been in Guatemala since that cholera incident and have no intention of returning there.