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Rick:
The next time you are transiting the Intracostal why not put a sign on your
transom that says "Don't slow down for me". Then no powerboat will try to
"lure" you into slowing down for a slow pass.
Then you would not have to worry about people "all shaking their fists and
cussing because I wouldn't cut back." In addition we will not have to feel
bad about waking your boat or waste our time trying to get you to slow down.
You are right that all those boats who pass you are really out to get you.
It is just called paranoia.
Frank Burrows
>I'll tell you what drives me crazy on the ICW. It's not the guys doing
>22-kts trying to cover 200 miles a day (although they do rank third, behind
>these guys I'm about to tell you about and bridges with restricted hours)
>but the guys in Trawlers traveling only a knot or two faster than most
>sailboats, who come straining up behind you, calling away at full watts on
>the VHF trying to blackmail gullible sailboaters into cutting their power
>and pulling over to the side for them.
>
>"Sailing vessel Cotton Jenny, Cotton Jenny, this is the motor yacht Wheeze,
>Wheeze, Wheeze, if you pull over to the side and cut back, skipper, I'll
>give you an easy pass."
>
>Easy pass my ass. They just want to play with the big boys and bully whom
>ever they can. Several that I wouldn't cut back for, once the boat came
>even with us, took minutes, long, smoky minutes, for them to finally creep
>past Xapic, all shaking their fists and cussing because I wouldn't cut back.
>What a crock. Gee, and they couldn't bounce me either.
>
>Rick
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Rick the Mouseherder - nh2f
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