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Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 12:47:15 EDT
South bound on the ICW (E. coast), I found both courtious and abusive techniques in passing. The approach I found to work best was to, keep a sharp look-out for boats approaching from the aft; If overtaking, establish which side the pass was to be on; move as far as reasonabe, in the channel , to the opposite side; slow the boat to just maintaining steerage (boat being passed); passing boat slow proceed through the passing lane untill 20-30 yards ahead and then both boats can resume speed with a minumum of inconveince and loss of time.
Charles Curry
S/V Seal
Bristol 40 MS
Original Message:
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From: Jerry Donofrio Boater Voter
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 07:04:50 -0400
To: ,
Subject: Re: Fw: lv-ab: Charts
> Jack Beale wrote:
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> Manfred...
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> Since there haven't been any other posts on the subject, I'll wade
> in with a little first-hand experience.
As a power boater, I too will wade in with a view from our bridge.
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> I would consider (strongly) leaving the Intracoastal at a point
> near Daytona and taking the outside route. The Intracoastal from Ft.
> Lauderdale to Miami is really a 'pisser'...!
Ditto - Very slow going
And, that brings me to another point about the boat traffic,
> which is horrendous - especially power boat traffic. There are large
> volumes of power boaters that could care less about courtesy, let
> alone the rules of the (rather narrow) 'road'. I have personally
> witnessed large (huge trawlers, some over 75 feet) hugging the wrong
> side of the waterway and forcing all oncoming traffic to deviate or be
> hit. I've also seen sport fishers at full throttle head down the
> middle of the Intracoastal, splitting two lines of sailing and power
> vessels, headed in opposite directions. The sport fishers seem to be
> the most rude and dangerous.
In one trip from NJ to Miami we passed over 275 sailboats and other
slower traffic in six days . The major problem as I see it is that the
sail boats generally travel down the middle leaving little if any room
for an easy pass. One occasion in Charleston, I remember four sail
boats traveling in a staggered fashion across the entire channel of 600
feet. This left little room for the faster boat to pass. We had to run
the very edge of the channel (which was over 20 feet deep). There was
more than sufficient depth for the slower sail boats to travel to the
right leaving the center of the channel open for the faster traffic.
Our normal method of passing was to approach the slower boat and settle
into the water. Attempt radio contact (almost never a response). Use
the hailer to indicate desire for an easy pass (sometimes a wave back).
Accelerate slowly to pass with no or low wake (the other vessel normally
never slowed to ease the duration of the pass). Try to get the other
vessel to fall in behind our stern so we could accelerate to cruising
speed ( almost never knew enough turn into our stern - exasperating the
passing condition)
When we did meet sailors who understood the propers of the easy passing
conditions we would clear the vessel and be upto our cruising speed in
less that two or three minutes. When the other vessel operator was
uncooperative, just chugging on off our beam, the pass would continue
for up to five minutes until we finally go feed up with trying to pass.
Generally, after waiting for the other boat to turn we would resort to
being a traffic cop and motion to the other vessel to fall in behind
us. Even this gesture was often ignored.
It is my believe that there are boaters out there that just don't know
how to effectively allow another to pass. Even more don't know anything
about the effect of the wake of a power boat. If they simply keep to
the right and turn into and follow the stern wake as soon as possible
there is very little wake to deal with.
Power boaters also should know how to effectively pass without creating
a problem. They should realize that a sailboat can not slow rapidly but
can turn easily. A close easy pass appears to be the fastest and least
intrusive.
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> http://home.att.net/~jack.beale/computerguy.htm
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