Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help a Lousy Sailor
by John Edwardson
Published on this site: July 19th, 2005 - See
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For thousands of years men have sailed the seas. From the
earliest trips by the discoverers and settlers of the Americas,
Australia and the Pacific Islands, through Odysseus' voyage
to Troy and beyond to the time of Swashbucklers in the Caribbean
mankind has made exciting voyages to the far corners of the
world.
In those early days hard cold steel and brass protected the
men and their ships. Today we have boat insurance, GPS systems,
sonar and underwater charts.
While boat insurance is not as glamorous as a fancy cutlass
nor as exciting as a cannon it does offer the boat owner something
that all the cutlasses and cannons cannot. It can replace
your ship if you lose it. In the wild and wooly days of wooden
ships and iron men you usually needed one ship to steal another.
Why not just sail away or blast somebody to flinders if they
are trying to steal your boat?
I must make a confession; I make a terrible sailor. I am
one of those people that Dramamine was invented for. I get
seasick watching a pirate movie or riding a Washington State
Ferry, that is hardly a rough ride at sea.
It is usually as steady as a stroll in the park. When my
family goes for a good time on the water I am waving merrily
from the shore. Why an I happy? I know that my family will
be safe; they use life vests, weather radio and GPS and have
boat insurance.
I on the other hand will not be 'feeding the fishes' and
watching the roll of the horizon waiting for the next 'heave
ho'.
As a young man I was fascinated by everything related to
the sea. Vikings and their ocean riding serpents, pirates
and their magnificent galleons, the US Navy and their valiant
ships of steel were all fodder for my young imagination.
I loved to dream about the time of cannons and cold steel
when men were men and lived by the code of the sea. Now we
have the GPS, sonar and boat insurance. Still I make a lousy
sailor.
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