Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help A Lousy Sailor

"Why Boat Insurance Doesn't Help A Lousy Sailor"



- by John Edwardson



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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