when we were on our 22 foot sailboat we got swamped by a bis a$$ powers
boat's wake because he couldn't be bother to give us any room and passed
us about 20 feet off our bow throwing a 4' wake. Then they had the nerve
to wave... My wife waved back with 1 finger while hanging off the
shrouds. That wake came up over the bow and right down the companionway...
Last summer, I was watching this sail boat flying a spinnaker closing on
us from the stern to port. We were running wing and wing doing about 4
knots in a light breeze. Now, I watched them for at least 40 minutes,
when I first saw them they could simply have changed their course by one
degree and came well aft. instead, they close within shouting distance
and the lady on the helm yells over, "can you give us some room?" I
shouted back, "what do you want me to do?" she replies, "head up!"
Upon which two other crew members seemed to say something to her and
they dropped the sock over the spin, came across my stern and opened the
little spin back up. I assumed the stand on position of being the
overtaken vessel and knew it was their job to get around me. I could not
figure out what they were doing and decided the best thing i could do
was stand on. Luckily it worked out!
Danny
On 7/18/2017 12:59 PM, Aaron Rouhi via CnC-List wrote:
Glad you were able get away without any damages... I have had a few of these here in
Chesapeake. Once the "captain" of the power boat actually turned around and
yelled at me for not changing course...
Cheers,
AR
On Jul 18, 2017, at 10:32 AM, robert via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Yesterday afternoon, having a pleasant sail in Halifax harbor, 5.5 knots,
starboard tack with a 25' to 30' cape island power boat approaching at about
the same speed on my port side.
As we approached each other, I was judging distance and time and it became
clear we were on a collision course. Since I was under sail and he was a
leisure boat, not commercial, under power I assumed he would give
way......maybe slow his speed and let me cross in front of him or he would duck
behind me.
Not happening....I could see him looking right at me so it was not a case where
he didn't, couldn't see me.....at the last moment when I realized he wasn't
going to give me right of way, I 'crashed tacked'......I didn't even have time
to release the jib.......just spun around 180 degrees and he passed approx. 3'
from my transom. There were two people sitting in chairs on his back deck that
saw me and looked bewildered wondering why I was so close to them.
He didn't slow down, didn't alter his course, didn't acknowledge me in any way.
If I had not turned, we would have collided......given my judgement of the
situation, he would have T-boned me about mid ship, port side at 5 to 6 knots.
I will be more careful in the future......this was way too close and totally
unnecessary.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
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