In the past 24 hours, one swimmer and one sailor have died in Madison lakes.
Early this morning, at around 2:45 AM, a 22 year old swimmer drowned in the Hoofer mooring field. His female companion, apparently not as intoxicated as he was, “attempted to assist him to shore," according to the article. If only they'd known how to sail, she possibly could have helped him onto a nearby sailboat and they could easily have come ashore that way. (UWPD probably would have charged them with trespassing, vandalism, unauthorized presence, theft, and some other things, but at least he'd still be alive.)
But did he really drown..? Or is he merely the latest victim of the Lake Mendota Monster?
Meanwhile, on Thursday evening, a 66-year old man died after being thrown from his sailboat while racing on Lake Kegonsa. The Kegonsa club mostly races MC scows and Flying Scots, so the boat might have capsized. The man was wearing his lifejacket, so obviously there's no point in that.
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ReplyDelete"Yesterday over twenty people re-certified on the J29 while many volunteers worked to get Executor up and running. We now have a full curriculum built for making sure everybody rated on this boat is on the same page with keeping her classy. If you could not re-certify on saturday find one of the following people who can help re-certify. I will also be running two more re-cert's at 5 and 5:30 this tuesday. Email me if you have any questions.
Instructors:
Brittney Rathsack
Peter Kapur
Paul Schoenher
Christopher Frye
Doug Miran
Justin Cherniak"
Who's the least competent on that list? It's a hard question.
By re-certify Dave apparently meant reminding everyone not to leave empty beer bottles, cups, etc, on board when finished cruising and to coil all the lines, etc. I enjoyed standing in the sun for 30 minutes to hear that.
ReplyDeleteJeez, didn't the legislature pass some law a little while ago to force students to graduate eventually and not become lifetime, part-time students forever who just hang out on these UW campuses all their lives? Only one person on that list is not some burnout UW "student" lifer. Isn't the purpose of the UW to educate and graduate these individuals into the larger society and economy, and not just be a never-ending party for them to waste away in?
ReplyDeleteI think that law was for high school students. College "students" don't ever have to graduate, so long as they can keep getting loans or some other support to pay for one class a semester. A sailing instructor job pays enough for that, unless you can only get hired as an unpaid instructor because the fat f--ks doing the hiring already allocated the whole payroll to themselves.
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