Kayak Fisherman Mag

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by blitzburgh

RIGHT ON. I read posts on youtube aligning this guy with heroes of the past, in that the world needs people like this for mankind to prosper. I cannot think of what greater good there was to gain by doing this? I feel bad for his family. Tragedy that should have never been.

Come on, everybody knows that if he would have pulled this off he would have cured cancer. Duh...

Its a bummer and with a wife and kids I would never attempt such a journey. But a lot of people that do this kind of stuff do have families. Wives, kids, and parents that are all a part of these types of crazy dreams. I guarantee you that his wife married him and had a child with him because of his adventerous spirit. I dunno, I just never find any good in bashing the dead. By his reaction when he was leaving he must have been a good man that had an insatiable appetite for this type of adventure. Its something that I (nor most) will ever understand, and thus, I'll never attempt things like paddling acrossed the Tasman Sea, climbing Mt. Everest, nor sailing in the Vendee Globe.

The responsible decision would have been to recognize this appetite for danger and decide not to have children. But that's not what he decided. He had a family he loved and I'm sure he was confident that he could pull this off, he was wrong and now a kid gets a surrogate dad. Totally irresponsible, but he obviously loved his family and just made a bad choice. There's people that have done a lot worse and don't get post-mortem "I told ya so"'s.

[blitzburgh]

[QUOTE=sapdawg711;57696I dunno, I just never find any good in bashing the dead. The responsible decision would have been to recognize this appetite for danger and decide not to have children. But that's not what he decided. He had a family he loved and I'm sure he was confident that he could pull this off, he was wrong and now a kid gets a surrogate dad. Totally irresponsible, but he obviously loved his family and just made a bad choice. There's people that have done a lot worse and don't get post-mortem "I told ya so"'s.[/QUOTE]

I am not "bashing the dead". If you are going to quote my post, then react to what I wrote accurately, which was about the posts on youtube. After which I stated clearly that this was a tragedy. In no way did I smear this man. There are no "I told ya so's here", just discussion.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by blitzburgh

I am not "bashing the dead". If you are going to quote my post, then react to what I wrote accurately, which was about the posts on youtube. After which I stated clearly that this was a tragedy. In no way did I smear this man. There are no "I told ya so's here", just discussion.

I wasn't quoting your post to say you were bashing the dead. None of that was directed towards you at all. I quoted your post only for the sentence that you said "what was going to be accomplished" and then I made a bad attempt at being funny by saying his run would cure cancer. Nothing I said was directed towards you at all. Just because your quote was in my post doesn't mean I was talking to you nor was I reacting to anything you wrote.