I've been in the situation where a sail boarder attempted to
cross our bow quite closely. They guy wiped out nearly
right in front of us, and I had no time to react at all. We
missed him by about 2 feet. We were on a C&C 40 at
the time. I felt like throwing the anchor at him, but all
we did was hurl insults.

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:



Wind and kite surfers have one thing in common. Many of them will not
know anything about the Coll Regs.


This is probably true. I have had a board surfer collide with me, I was on
starboard,
he was on port, slammed into my port side.

On thing the Coll Regs make clear is that even if you are stand on, you
have
an obligation to do what you can to avoid a collision; you should alter
your course so that you are no longer on a collision course. Open water
is no place to be installing a new though hull!

Cheers
Marty