On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:55:45 -0400, "Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:51:40 -0400, "Skip Gundlach"
wrote:

here was no incident, but if I'd been 10
seconds faster, he'd have T-boned me.

Really?! I think I would have turned to starboard and shown him a
red.


Given that I was wing and wing, by the time I'd gotten turned I'd have
been in irons, thrown over (prevented main, poled genny), and there
was less than a minute available before it became apparent he wasn't
going to respond.

So, instead I showed him an entire boat (all the lights). Whether or
not he saw me, before then or never, was moot; nobody answered the
phone...

You should be thinking of taking avoiding action when he was 2nm off.
Power does NOT give way to sail as some people seem to think.