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From: Enriquez, Michael (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 10:06:15 EDT
Since when is the stand down vessel supposed to throttle back when being
overtaken? By law, all vessels are responsible for their wakes and the
damage it causes. I know it is rare, but I do know of a motor vessel who's
owner, throttles back when passing, slows way down if passing kayaks, or
moored boats. Rare indeed.
_Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick the Mouseherder [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:47 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Re: Fw: lv-ab: Charts/passing
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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Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
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