Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Nick wrote: That level of confidence is unlikely to be attained if you just put the engine on every time conditions are a bit challenging.
Although that statement is true as it stands, you do seem to be drawing an unwarranted inference about habitual behaviour on the basis of a single observation.
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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Alan_D wrote:
Nick wrote: That level of confidence is unlikely to be attained if you just put the engine on every time conditions are a bit challenging.
Although that statement is true as it stands, you do seem to be drawing an unwarranted inference about habitual behaviour on the basis of a single observation.
I was under the impression that this had turnd into a general discussion rather than referring solely to the yacht Postscript. However, if we are talking specifically about Postscript then she was seen twice, once being towed into Oban by the RNLI when it was breezy and once motoring up the Sound of Mull in a fresh breeze.
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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Nick wrote:if we are talking specifically about Postscript then she was seen twice, once being towed into Oban by the RNLI when it was breezy and once motoring up the Sound of Mull in a fresh breeze.
How dare she!
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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Mark, you seem to assume that there is an implied criticism in a completely neutral sentence. I thought this is a discussion, not an argument.

Anyway, it's one I'm out of for now - I'm off to Largs to take ship for exotic parts. Have a nice week everyone :tiphat:
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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Nick wrote:.
I'm off to Largs to take ship for exotic parts. Have a nice week everyone :tiphat:

Ye're nae awa to Millport, or even Campbeltown ur ye ? :lol:
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Re: Oban lifeboat launches to yacht rescue off Maiden Island

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Nah, he's looking for an empty room to start a fight in. :D

Have a great break, Nick, sorry if I upset you, just trying to show that there are different strokes for different people, & that don't necessarily make them lesser people.
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