Buck, Buck

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! There's not much sailing news, but people have been contacting us with specific questions.

While we are always happy to receive useful info from sources (and are appreciative of it), we generally don't reply directly to questions via email.

However, to answer three recent questions.... One, we have not received any further details yet on the child/sexual harassment complaint alluded to in recent comments, but we are hopeful that details will be forthcoming.

Two, the only HSC rule covering swimming off boats is on p. 18 in the Ground school manual, which states that you must wear a lifejacket at all times unless you're "Hoofer swimmer rated" (although I've never even heard of that rule being enforced). Of course, you should still get the skipper's permission before jumping in. NOTE that the rule was changed after the June 2015 drowning to require all sailors to wear their lifejacket at all times, in a classic knee-jerk reaction.

And three, no we do not accept or solicit monetary contributions for this blog. (was that person really serious?)

Meanwhile, I assume everyone is eating something other than turkey this Thanksgiving given the tens of millions of deaths from the H5N2 bird flu virus in the U.S. this year and widespread infection of the remaining fleet, er flock....