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DaveSula schreef :
you still pretend to be a serious forum? I had to smile at the fact that you know exactly which type and brand of the average AWB, but does the color of the boats change become difficult? Maybe it's an experiment for you, stop all donations to the KNRM for a few years, and then see what happens, if there are still boats and "volunteers" But feel free to continue that forum to an even stranger place make the internet better than it already was, cheers.
The weather reports can only predict exactly on a race day, so you can tell every insurer in Holland that there was 10 Baufort on the Markermeer today? You don't keep a log? Don't have a cell phone to record a salvage?
Doesn't really sound like you have anything to do on the water at all, with so little sense I can imagine that you are afraid of the potentially gigantic costs if you mess up.
Why don't you take your whining elsewhere. Not 1 single post from you has something constructive in it...
is that true? it is also very difficult to discuss with a group of people who think that the KNRM is free if they ever have something on the water? If so, why does the KNRM need so many donors, every year literally thousands of people put money in a large pot to keep the service up to standard. So it is not free but made possible by a large group of strangers who have ensured that the KNRM comes to rescue or help you.
Rikken makes a nice calculation of this earlier, which was completely ignored, because people do not want to do it. Why afraid that they will have to pay more for their stupid mistake?
So this discussion lacks any sense of reality, as I said, start your own service, you will see that the cost for 1 rib with equipment and training per year will be over 100,000 euros in purchase alone, who is going to pay for that? Furthermore, all the people who complain afterwards, so it was not that bad, if I were rescued from a serious life-threatening situation, a few thousand euros don't even count, I'm already happy that I'm still alive.
I sail all over the world and you can hardly find it anywhere as in the Netherlands, given the discussion here on this serious forum, you almost sound like a bunch of little kids who want everything but don't want to pay like. That does not mean that the salvage companies are allowed to lie about the circumstances, but if nothing is wrong and it is a simple tow, can't you also make the decisions in peace? So simple work in normal weather offers more time for making appointments and calling your insurer than when it is at sea with >8 Baufort.
You probably still don't think this is a good contribution, but that has more to do with you than with me, dear friend! cheers