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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 09:41:58 EDT
<<One behavior we could never understand was why planing motorboats
_always_ chose to pass in front of us. Boats coming up from five miles
away would alter course to go in front of us, even when this lengthened
the course to the harbor. Given this is counter-intuitive, I figured
it must be taught in some power boating class.>>
This is the optimum way to pass a sail boat in a fairly restricted channel
like a river or the ICW. The overtaking planing powerboat parallels the sailboat
until it is ahead, then cuts across the bow and when directly in front,
alters its course to run up the channel. The maneuver has the effect of directing
its wake so that it hits the fore quarter of the sailboat where the motion is
more kindly than hitting on the beam.
Larry Z
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