"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Bryan" wrote in message
news I don't think there was anything subtle about his total disregard
of the rules of the road.....all close quarter passes with no
regard to the safety of the other boats or the possible
catastrophic consequences of his maneuvers.


I don't know. It looks like a typical mid-summer Saturday afternoon
outside of Scituate Harbor, MA.

Eisboch
Don't go anywhere near Annapolis Harbor on a Sunday in the summer.
You'll be run down by sailboters who care not a whit for the rules of
the road or anything else.
At the risk of ****ing off any resident blow boaters, I have to agree
100%. Why, when they have power, do they insist on sailing all the way
down a crowded, busy, narrow harbor channel, tacking back and forth
within 40-50 feet? Even at 5 knots, my Navigator won't stop on a dime
to avoid them when they suddenly decide to tack to port from the other
side of the channel.

Eisboch

Full reverse?


\\

No big, heavy boat experience, eh?


Yep.

No sense of humor Harry? I was being facetious. Even Eisboch understood
that.

Lighten up. Otherwise, your posts here are becoming nothing more
than.........*vapid*. ;-)

" JimH" wrote in message
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"Bryan" wrote in message
news

" JimH" wrote in message
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Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like
this guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y





What makes that guy an idiot?
Is it the close encounters with other boats at high speed or is it
something more subtle.



I trust you are kidding.

I don't think there was anything subtle about his total disregard of the
rules of the road.....all close quarter passes with no regard to the
safety of the other boats or the possible catastrophic consequences of his
maneuvers.

Yes, JimH, just a little tongue in cheek.

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Bryan" wrote in message
news I don't think there was anything subtle about his total disregard of
the rules of the road.....all close quarter passes with no regard to
the safety of the other boats or the possible catastrophic
consequences of his maneuvers.



I don't know. It looks like a typical mid-summer Saturday afternoon
outside of Scituate Harbor, MA.

Eisboch

Don't go anywhere near Annapolis Harbor on a Sunday in the summer. You'll
be run down by sailboters who care not a whit for the rules of the road
or anything else.

At the risk of ****ing off any resident blow boaters, I have to agree
100%. Why, when they have power, do they insist on sailing all the way
down a crowded, busy, narrow harbor channel, tacking back and forth within
40-50 feet? Even at 5 knots, my Navigator won't stop on a dime to avoid
them when they suddenly decide to tack to port from the other side of the
channel.

Eisboch

The only time I would sail a narrow channel would be under uncrowded
conditions where you would have plenty of room to stay clear of a tacking
sailboat or if I did not have power. I do not find it agreeable to sail
narrow channels when unnecessary due to the overwhelming presence of
examples as illustrated by the video with this topic.

" JimH" wrote in message
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Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like this
guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y





Elsewhere, somewhere asked why I'd want a 50 caliber rifle on a boat. Here's
the answer.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Bryan" wrote in message
news I don't think there was anything subtle about his total disregard of
the rules of the road.....all close quarter passes with no regard to
the safety of the other boats or the possible catastrophic
consequences of his maneuvers.


I don't know. It looks like a typical mid-summer Saturday afternoon
outside of Scituate Harbor, MA.

Eisboch
Don't go anywhere near Annapolis Harbor on a Sunday in the summer.
You'll be run down by sailboters who care not a whit for the rules of
the road or anything else.

At the risk of ****ing off any resident blow boaters, I have to agree
100%. Why, when they have power, do they insist on sailing all the way
down a crowded, busy, narrow harbor channel, tacking back and forth
within 40-50 feet? Even at 5 knots, my Navigator won't stop on a dime to
avoid them when they suddenly decide to tack to port from the other side
of the channel.

Eisboch

When they start behaving that way, I simply stop the boat and force them
to jibe to avoid hitting me. I don't do this in the middle of a channel,
but in the Annapolis area, no matter what you are doing with your boat,
even if you are anchored way out of the channel and either fishing or
daydreaming, you stand a good chance of being rammed by a blowboter.

I don't know if you know the inlet, but St. Augustine Inlet, which dumps
into the ocean, almost always has a southerly wind blowing across it, and
a heavy tidal current. At least once a week when I lived there, some
sailbaoter would run aground on the soft sand of Vilano Beach there while
trying to run the inlet under sail. These were sailboats with engines.

Call the Coast Guard and tell them the captain's chugging directly out of a
bottle of some sort of brown liquor.

"Bryan" wrote in message
. net...


The only time I would sail a narrow channel would be under uncrowded
conditions where you would have plenty of room to stay clear of a tacking
sailboat or if I did not have power. I do not find it agreeable to sail
narrow channels when unnecessary due to the overwhelming presence of
examples as illustrated by the video with this topic.


Plus, if you check the regs, it's illegal for a sailboat with power to be
under sail only in a crowed, narrow harbor channel.

Eisboch

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:07:57 -0500, " JimH" wrote:

Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like this
guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y

From his facial expressions I can't tell whether he's trying to mimic
a fish or getting ready to puke. What a moron.

JimH wrote:
Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like this
guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y


unfortunately, there are idiots like this all around. we get our share,
but we tend to avoid places where they like to show off like that.
passing me that close at that speed may invite a 12 ga slug below the
waterline if a second pass is attempted. endanger my life, my crew, or
my vessel, and you get what you deserve... you've been warned!

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:41:27 GMT, DownTime
wrote:

JimH wrote:
Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like this
guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y


unfortunately, there are idiots like this all around. we get our share,
but we tend to avoid places where they like to show off like that.
passing me that close at that speed may invite a 12 ga slug below the
waterline if a second pass is attempted. endanger my life, my crew, or
my vessel, and you get what you deserve... you've been warned!

I agree, that guy should be banned from boating. I would think anyone
in any of those cruisers would be justified at taking out his boat the
way is driving. What if someone were swimming in the water???

"Charlie Brown" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:41:27 GMT, DownTime
wrote:

JimH wrote:
Found this on another forum. I am sure we have all seen idiots like
this
guy on the water.

http://tinyurl.com/dxz3y


unfortunately, there are idiots like this all around. we get our share,
but we tend to avoid places where they like to show off like that.
passing me that close at that speed may invite a 12 ga slug below the
waterline if a second pass is attempted. endanger my life, my crew, or
my vessel, and you get what you deserve... you've been warned!

I agree, that guy should be banned from boating. I would think anyone
in any of those cruisers would be justified at taking out his boat the
way is driving. What if someone were swimming in the water???



This is probably how he ended up when coming back to his dock.

http://tinyurl.com/dewyu