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In a message dated 2/1/2006 6:46:10 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:
My beef is usually with Sport Fish boats heading north or south with "lowest
bidder" delivery captains onboard
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Ahhh...the low bidder..... You oftern get what you pay for. One of the best
passes I ever had on the ICW was from a delivery skipper on a sportsfish. I
saw him coming and prepared for the "rock-n-roll". He called on the radio, we
discussed the pass (very little on my part except for throttling down) and he
executed it efficiently (read "minimal loss of time on his delivery") and
minimal wake for us. He approached almost dead astern, throttled down at the
last moment, slid around close to shake hands (just as his wake died to a
ripple) slid back in front of me ("Ah'm just gonna almost clip your bow, cap....")
and throttled back up. All I had to do was throttle down to about 2kts
before he got there.....
On the Baywasher issue..... it's the skippers not the boats.....
education and experience are the ticket, mostly experience. The longer I
cruise, the more I'm thinking licensing boat drivers might be a good thing
(geez.... I hate saying that.). And I realized after cruising a while that there
are as many stupid sailors as stupid powerboaters they just aren't usually as
obvious.
Bill
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