Good news at last! SEAWORTHY - Boat U.S.

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 There's good news for anyone who spends a lot of time, maybe too much time, on the water: According to Genetic Determination Today, researchers at Mystic University in Connecticut have identified a gene that is associated with "seafaringness." It's a form of the MAOA-L gene, which is associated with "high risk" behavior. (It's also closely related to something called "the warrior gene," which might explain a few of the more bizarre BoatUS Marine Insurance claims.)

The researchers studied residents of traditional whaling villages—Mystic, Connecticut; New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Cold Spring Harbor, New York—and found that they were 20 times more likely to have the seafaringness gene than residents of land-locked villages.
Why is this good news? Let's say you've always had a tendency to spend far too much money on your boat at the expense of things like your kids' college fund, contributing to your IRA, or fixing the roof on your house. Well now you have an excuse—spending money on your boat is genetic! Sort of like going bald; it's not your fault.
 
How do I explain it, Charlie? I was born in the exotic land of Eye-Oh-Wuh, and no one in the family (as far back as I know) ever had a boat. Is this something that can be contracted by association? 8)

Best wishes,
Jim
 
Oh, so we blame it on the ancestors, eh? Great excuse. El has a forebear who was captain of the whaler "Champion" and sailed from New Bedford. He died at sea and was 'buried' in the Bering Sea.

My forebears crossed the Atlantic on a wooden sailing vessel, part of the Wonder Fleet, in 1710 and had a memorable winter crossing.

So it is their genes, in us, that made us live aboard boats all those years?

Thanks for the interesting genetic post.
 
Dreamer":o7ze0wue said:
Jim, I think you have the FON-1 gene. :wink:
freak of nature
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When I was a kid, my sisters used to tell me I was adopted. Apparently, gypsies tossed me up on the porch... seems I wandered too much for them. Hmmm... maybe my family wasn't kidding? 8)
 
Certainly i my families genes for the 2 generations prior. Not sure much further back---but my great grandfather certainly enjoyed being on the water, although he did not own a boat. (Lived in one of the first beach houses in Long Beach CA. part of the time.)
 
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