Comments on: Thoughts on swimming, mortality, etc. http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:42:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jill http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-926 Jill Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:28:40 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-926 Greetings from St. Croix, Great story, glad you survived ... Made me think of the movie Open Water2, yikes! I live in the Caribbean, just started reading your blog - hadn't realized you were in a cold climate until reading this entry (I'd only read one other entry prior to this one) Living on a boat anywhere that's not warm and tropical is hard to imagine .. You guys are tough! Best of luck to you, and thank you for sharing your adventures. ~Jill~ Greetings from St. Croix,

Great story, glad you survived … Made me think of the movie Open Water2, yikes!
I live in the Caribbean, just started reading your blog – hadn’t realized
you were in a cold climate until reading this entry (I’d only read one other entry prior to this one) Living on a boat anywhere that’s not warm and tropical is hard to imagine .. You guys are tough! Best of luck to you, and thank you for sharing your adventures.

~Jill~

]]> By: Alice Radio http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-746 Alice Radio Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:28:16 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-746 I found you got potential to be an expeditionary novelist. great post! I found you got potential to be an expeditionary novelist. great post!

]]> By: Anna http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-453 Anna Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:30:31 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-453 What a great story! Not great that it happened, but great that you survived and at least made the best of it by writing a fantastic post. What a great story! Not great that it happened, but great that you survived and at least made the best of it by writing a fantastic post.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-96 Anonymous Tue, 22 May 2007 14:44:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-96 That was very nicely written : ) That was very nicely written : )

]]> By: Hudson http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-95 Hudson Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:13:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-95 Todd,<br/><br/>Got your note. When I started reading, I said to myself, "Ice? Why does he have ice?". Then your latitude dawned on me. Mines 17.2 N. M'God, I haven't thought about ice for a while now. Glad you're OK.<br/><br/>Hud-3 Todd,

Got your note. When I started reading, I said to myself, “Ice? Why does he have ice?”. Then your latitude dawned on me. Mines 17.2 N. M’God, I haven’t thought about ice for a while now. Glad you’re OK.

Hud-3

]]> By: Walkabout http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-94 Walkabout Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-94 G'day,<br/>I'm a Live-aboard in Sarnia Ontario and had a similar incident a month and half ago. I had been on the bow pushing ice away and was stepping back onto my finger a'midships as thats where my plastic begins (mast to stern cover) when my foot touched the dock and slipped out from under me. I was doing a gymnastic routine of Olympic grace trying to grab a life line before I ended up swimming and in the end was able to do just that. Now being of "fleshier" proportions myself I ended up partially separating my left shoulder in my effort to stay dry. Should have just accepted the bath mother nature was offering! I placed a ladder in my slip up against the dock for just such an emergency in the fall as there are only a few of us White Sailors here.<br/>Glad all ended well for you. <br/><br/>God Speed and Fair winds<br/>Matt Hevron G’day,
I’m a Live-aboard in Sarnia Ontario and had a similar incident a month and half ago. I had been on the bow pushing ice away and was stepping back onto my finger a’midships as thats where my plastic begins (mast to stern cover) when my foot touched the dock and slipped out from under me. I was doing a gymnastic routine of Olympic grace trying to grab a life line before I ended up swimming and in the end was able to do just that. Now being of “fleshier” proportions myself I ended up partially separating my left shoulder in my effort to stay dry. Should have just accepted the bath mother nature was offering! I placed a ladder in my slip up against the dock for just such an emergency in the fall as there are only a few of us White Sailors here.
Glad all ended well for you.

God Speed and Fair winds
Matt Hevron

]]> By: Ellen, John & Sophia http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-93 Ellen, John & Sophia Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-93 Aaaahh!! You scared me to death, T! I remember, vividly, the way Boston Harbor took my breath away in early April. Your water had to have been far colder- it reminds me to be John's spotter when we're in the same predicament in the future. So glad you're safe and sound. Aaaahh!! You scared me to death, T! I remember, vividly, the way Boston Harbor took my breath away in early April. Your water had to have been far colder- it reminds me to be John’s spotter when we’re in the same predicament in the future. So glad you’re safe and sound.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-92 Anonymous Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:16:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-92 At first I laughed, you tell it so well, then I stopped to think of what could have been!! <br/>Next time tie a rope around yourself first!!<br/><br/>Auntie H At first I laughed, you tell it so well, then I stopped to think of what could have been!!
Next time tie a rope around yourself first!!

Auntie H

]]> By: andrew http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-91 andrew Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:23:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-91 Phew. Just reading your account made me shiver. You all be careful. <br/><br/>Spring's nearly here ;-)<br/><br/>Cheers,<br/>A. Phew. Just reading your account made me shiver. You all be careful.

Spring’s nearly here ;-)

Cheers,
A.

]]> By: Strathy http://www.weliveonaboat.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html/comment-page-1#comment-90 Strathy Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:02:00 +0000 http://www.weliveonaboat.com/index.php/2007/03/thoughts-on-swimming-mortality-etc.html#comment-90 They have - repeatedly. They have – repeatedly.

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