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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

A PFD is a "personal flotation device"---you need it, plus two-way 
communications, navigation equipment.  I piloted a boat during November 
bad weather from Long Island to the Chesapeake one time---left it 
because the owner lied about it being diesel-powered (it was Chevrolet 
gas engine with a feeble car tranmission instead of Twin Disc marine 
transmission), the two-way radio didn't work and there wasn't enough 
rope or chain to permit the weak anchor (no spare) to reach bottom.

The owner didn't have life jackets either.  I jumped ship at the W.R. 
Grace fishing camp on  a south-facing shore---only sand shore for miles 
around, chartered an airplane and flew home with theW.R. Grace favorite 
real estate broker

Read in the newspaper the boat owner drowned a cou[le days later and the 
remnants of the boat drifted ashore on Smith Island.  Good-Oh!!.  I 
would have drowned him myself a number of times, beginning with his lies 
about having a diesel, and when  the
shear pins in the outdrive kept breaking in eighty miles of open sea.  I 
really don't like hanging over the stern in icy seas without a life 
jacket---or even with one.   Couldn't teach the stupid bastard the 
difference between a can buoy or num buoy, so he constantly kept running 
aground on the Inland Waterway---not good for the seams, had to head for 
a marine repair facility near Tom's River to stop them from leaking.

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