On Aug 14, 4:13*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:37:58 GMT, John H.
wrote:

If you think there’s a story here, you’re right. And the story is still
unfolding.

Tell you what - this should go to appeal in any case and the sheriff's
department is in a heap of trouble. *Any competent criminal attorney
will make mincemeat out of the prosecuter in this one. *These accident
investigators have a ton of technical tools at their disposal and if
they are saying it wasn't the sailboat owners fault, it wasn't.

What a mess.

"The sailboat was ghosting through the water ..."

Did both craft have adiquate navigational lighting?

but sounds to me like the Baja was traveling way "too fast for
conditions", though.