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[George Buehler]

   I spent 3 days trying to write a reply to this and gave up before my 
blood pressure peaked to stroke..  I don't know who this Tad character 
is but I suggest he go boff the neighbor's dog rather than write such BS 
about things he obviously knows nothing about.  The great seamen like 
Ross Anderson, a frequent poster here, and Don & Marge Macintyre who 
are, I believe, 3 time participants in the  BOC, and the others voyaging 
the world in  DIESEL DUCKS, are people who, to paraphrase what Lincoln 
said at Gettysburg; have knowledge that made their choice "beyond (some 
posters here) poor power to add or distract."  
   And dismissing IDLEWILD in these pages as a "stunt?"  MY GOD.  Ben 
and IDLEWILD sum up the very BEST of the human spirit.  Having a dream, 
believing it against all the boring and unimaginative nay sayers like 
some who post here, having the balls to TRY, and then succeeding.  Ben 
and IDLEWILD set records that will stand a long long time.  And they 
will ALWAYS be the first..  But that isn't why they did it.  It was 
Ben's dream to make that trip and he did it.  And to have him sneered in 
these posts as a "stunt" by some clown who has never done anything 
remotely as brave is appalling.  Anybody who can't see that really is 
beyond hope.  And just as appalling, NO national magazine including 
Passagemaker, ever mentioned it.  Could it be that I don't spend 
thousands in ads in their rags? 
    What a boring boring culture we have become if people, especially on 
these pages, can't understand that Ben had a dream and unlike me and 
you, DID IT.     Certainly there is enough positive things about 
cruising to write about rather than poking such undeserved  cheap shots 
as I've seen in these pages recently,
  
Most Sincerely,

George Buehler

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