[fatlazyless]

Actually, as I recall at the time I wrote that, I was not intending to be sarcastic. I was looking at the situation as someone who knows that beer and boating is pretty common. In my mind, as someone familiar with Diamond Island, what was a very small & easy turn of the steering wheel resulted into a huge human disaster. I'm sorry for any pain my comments, as perceived by you, may have caused and apologize for that. As someone who has experienced the sudden death of a brother-in-law, I recall how angry his death made me, at the time.

Determining whether a forum post is straight-ahead or sarcastic is not always so easy, and a different readers can interpret the same post differently.

What else can I say here? I need to go back and reread what I said in that quoted post of mine...hold-on...

Ok...just reread it ...and can understand how it could be interpreted to be sarcastic when one considers all my other posts....however....driving a boat and driving a car are in fact very very different. Car safety is usually a matter of a couple feet, while boat safety is frequently in a wide open space with 360-degree choice of steering.....so long time habits of boating and beer are still happening probably by a good number of boaters.

I was definately not trying to make a sarcastic comment but more thinking along the lines that it is not too unusual boating activity and was just a very small steering error. Boat steering errors have happened to me plenty times, and I think "is there rocks down below"...and "hope this works out ok" and know it's very easy to go astray on Winnipesaukee.

And, I apologize for stepping on anyone's feelings here.