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From: Rick the Mouseherder (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 19:33:49 EDT
Whatsa matta, Frank? Strike a nerve? I just get a burr about petty tirants
wanting to run everybody else's business. You hear these guys coming for
half a day or more on the radio, threatening dire someflungdung if boat
after boat don't pull over.
Rick
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Westsail 32 Xapic, Hull #438
Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
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=-----Original Message-----
=From:
=[mailto:]On Behalf Of Frank
=Burrows
=Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 18:14
=To:
=Subject: RE: lv-ab: Charts/passing
=
=
=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
=>
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=>Rick the Mouseherder - nh2f
=
=
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