Looking for Murphy
Article Abstract:
Sailors take perverse pleasure in facing up to Murphy's Law that states 'if it can go wrong, it will', and most derive a great deal of satisfaction from successfully dealing with things that go wrong. A first-hand account of problems faced and overcome on the water demonstrates that they are an integral part of the sailing experience.
Publication Name: Sail
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0036-2700
Year: 2005
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Out of a hole
Article Abstract:
A description of an exciting trip across a narrow five-mile long channel between a series of shoals off the mainland and vast sandbank, without a chart, is narrated. Good seamanship is said to be the ability to be resourceful to get out of a situation that a wiser person would never have gotten into in the first place.
Publication Name: Sail
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0036-2700
Year: 2003
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