There are times to be a fly on the wall and that was one of them just to see
the reactions on both boats.> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:18:07 -0400> Subject:
Re: catalina27-talk: Rules of the Road> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> > > > > 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> > > >> > >> 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)> >> > >> > >> On 10/27/08 7:56
PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> > >>> 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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