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Old 11-02-2012, 07:18 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by psneeld View Post
Going to sea and sailing at this storm in the Bounty cannot be seen as a good decision...the results prove it.
And yet... It WAS the right decision at the time for him, his ship, and his crew. What keeps being overlooked here is that it was a major equipment failure that caused this. He and his ship had been is much larger and more powerful storms. Moreover, he was already beyond the SW edge of the storm when he had the failure.

I am not trying to be argumentative here, but we have to respect his decision because we will all have to make them eventually. Sometime they are right, sometimes not, but the armchair quarterbacking here is not helping anything.

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