I feel brimful of amusement in anticipation of what the skipper of the
little boat might say. The journalist in me wants to give him the benefit of
the doubt, though, and wait for his plea.
In all seriousness, though, it looks as though the sailors in those waters
have a very different definition of what it means to give a large vessel
ample room to maneuver. Over here in Long Island Sound, we do have the
occasional boink or screwy maneuver in front of a large vessel, but if you
looked at the general nature of how large vessels are treated, we tend to
stay out of their way.
For instance, if you go anywhere in the Sound, you are bound to pass through
harbor channels and you time your crossing so as to simply not be in the
channel when the big vessels come by. You don't have any expectation that
they will maneuver at all to avoid you, just run you down. Once in a while,
late at night perhaps, outside the channels but in the shipping lanes, they
may change course two degrees to give you a break, but this is probably
because they can't be sure how big you are and whether it would foul their
props. This gives the small boat skipper a disposition toward healthy and
realistic sailing.
--Dave S. (Demitri)
On 10/27/08 9:42 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hah....sadly enough, no...at the very end someone asks about the CG
> report...no one has seen it apparently.
>
> sorry for the waste of time but it was amusing on some level, eh?
>
> tf
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>> I went through about nine screens of this and didn't find the answer to my
>> simple question--what did the people aboard the 40-footer say about what
>> happened? Does this answer appear somewhere and I missed it?
>>
>> --Dave S. (Demitri)
>>
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>> On 10/27/08 7:56 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> I dont think so.
>>> Just about everything that can be known is here:
>>>
>>> http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=79808
>>>
>>> a thread that started exactly 2 minutes after the incident!
>>>
>>> tf
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm thinking his autopilot malfunctioned and performed a tack.
>>>>
>>>> Bob
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