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The Opinions of Sailors

By LaDonna | December 4, 2009 | Everywhere |

Ask three sailors for their opinion on any given subject and you’ll get four answers. That being the case, we want to thank everyone for sending in their comments on what the Coast Guard should or shouldn’t have done in the case of JoJo. Please don’t send in any more letters about the subject as we’ve received more than we can possibly publish.

We’ll be contacting the Coast Guard for their comment on the incident for January’s edition of Latitude 38, but for the moment, we’d like to address one point a number of readers made. "Why didn’t they call Vessel Assist or Sea Tow?" was the question many of you asked, wrongly assuming that such a service is available everywhere — like AAA on the water. The nearest such service is Vessel Assist out of Santa Cruz — 25 miles from Stillwater Cove. Had the Livengoods called for that service, they would have waited two or more hours for their arrival.

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