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So true.

Lonesome EJ-

There may have been some pressure from management to be down in St. Petersburg for the special tall ship's event the week after. We'll never know. I'm still trying to puzzle out why the captain decided to try to skirt around the western edge of the storm rather than the eastern edge; that's evidently how the ship sank at its present location, just 90 miles off Cape Hatteras. Skirting west would have been faster but more risky, and if the bilge pumps failed, the generators failed, and the engines failed, the hurricane would have been right on them (and the hurricane doubled its pace as it closed on the shore)...

All so much speculation and there are more qualified sailors on this forum to do such speculation than me.

Charley Noble