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Complacency and the Modern Sailor
by Darrell Nicholson on December 05, 2018
In recent years it seems as if not a fall sailing season goes by without at least one presumably sound vessel and experienced crew running into trouble off Cape Hatteras. It is almost as if today’s sailors are suffering a severe case of amnesia, causing them to forget that this stretch of water has rightly earned the moniker “Graveyard of the Atlantic.” Or perhaps this is just another example of how improved weather forecasting and state-of-the-art navigation and communication systems (not to mention distress signaling) has led us to become complacent?
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