Re: Traditional Yachtsmen


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>[1] I fully accept there was a time where lifeboat crews regularly put
>themselves in very real danger with no modern nav kit. Reading the
>accounts of these is profoundly moving. However times have moved on. I
>suspect few lifeboatmen have lost their lives this week.


What about all those pesky sananists we get today then? More
interesting than stats., Dan...
Parry jnr. went to prison shortly afterwards, I believe, for drug
offences..

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/page.cfm?objectid=11959974&method=full&siteid=50082

http://www.royalhumane.org/awards/bronzewinners03.htm

http://www.rnli.org.uk/Article.asp?ArticleID=1935
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