>Now to deal with the media. Georgs is a true >journalist in every sense of the word. I have really >enjoyed his writing about the trips he took as part of >adventures a long range cruising. However, reporting >the plight of a Northwest Passage by someone >ill-informed, ill-equipped and ill-prepared for such >an adventure is something we should all take as Georgs >reported. He was being a reporter, not a journalist. I >enjoy his writing as a journalist. Georgs, let someone >else handle the attempt at reporting the adventure. What a load of baloney! As a journalist, I am dedicated to reporting on passagemaking as it happens, wherever it happens, to the best of my ability. For the record: In what I have learned about Ben Gray and Idlewild and the other yachts attempting the Northwest Passage this year, none strike me as being ill-informed, ill-equipped and ill-prepared. --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997