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The word "passenger" is doing a lot of damage here. On a small craft there is no such thing. Everyone aboard is crew, even if the only job they are capable of is noticing something and saying it out loud. If someone truly is just ballast, you have fewer hands and more liability, not more authority. Authority and information/advice are two different things. Being in charge means you make the call and you wear the consequences. It does not mean you are the only person aboard whose eyes work. Aviation sorted this out decades ago and airliners did not become democracies in the

I guess don't confuse "advice" with "instruction"... I remember sailing once with an old guy who knew it all. I kept giving him advice - but he knew it all - he didn't need some young guy telling him how to sail - eventually I stopped giving him advice cause he always shutting me down. you're here to trim the jib - don't tell me what the boats are doing you're here to trim the jib - I can see the wind shifts just fine - be quiet you're hear to trim the jib - I don't need your advice on trimming the main On the way into the finish line I started counting down 7, 6, 5,

Who you are calling a geriatric ole fart...?

He's kinda right. I'd go further back to ssb and gps.