Sometimes they do get what they deserve. A number of years ago we were in the inner harbor of our home port, a clearly posted no wake zone, headed toward our slip. We were passed and nearly swamped by a large powerboat throwing up a big wake. I was irate since our young daughter was on deck at the time and hailed the marina. Their response was "don't worry, we saw it". The powerboat's slip happened to be the face dock of the same pier where the police and sheriff boats docked, and there were 4 officers waiting for him as he pulled in. I heard that in addition to speeding violations, they also did a meticulous safety inspection and threw the book at him for some shortcomings there. I have to admit to some satisfaction on that one.
The epilogue to this one is that a few years later, I saw the same boat sitting in a riverfront boatyard with the entire fly bridge sheared off like he had driven under a low bridge at high speed. I guess some people never learn, though I hope he did not injure someone else in that incident.
Jim Reinardy
C&C 30-2 "Firewater"
Milwaukee, WI
C&C 30-2 "Firewater"
Milwaukee, WI
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Subject: Re: Stus-List Rules of the Road
From: David via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Date: Tue, July 18, 2017 11:07 am
To: CNC CNC <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Cc: David <davidrisc...@msn.com>
We were powered up on a broad reach with a chute heading eastward down LIS doing about 9 knots with just Lady Di and I. Clear September weekday so empty waters. And a rare morning sail with great wind from the right direction.
Fishing dragger with stabilizers down is slowing bearing down on us from astern. 30 minutes later and he would have run right up our transom if I did not alter course and risk a roundup in the process
Prick was on bridge. Wouldnt answer radio.
Some of those commercial guys just have a bad attitude towards us "yachties"
Either it's black or white with them...competent or maliciously incompetent.
1981 40-2.
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone
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From: Danny Haughey via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Date: 7/18/17 1:24 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Aaron Rouhi via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Cc: Danny Haughey <djhaug...@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Stus-List Rules of the Road
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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