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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Sep 2006
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Seamanship Question #42
I don't particularly like preventers, of the times I have seen other
use them about half came to grief one way or another. I did
accidentally gybe a boat myself in hard going, when dodging a bit of
debris in the water that loomed up in the glow of the running
lights... managed to dodge the obstacle (it looked like a large metal
fishing mast, suggestive of a sunken boat right there) and when
gawking aft at it after we passed it, gybed the boat. No damage, just
slightly embarassing... if we'd hit that mast (or whatever it was)
we'd have gone down like a rock... certainly one of the closest calls
I've ever had while sailing, so I don't feel too bad about the gybe
afterward *
Fresh Breezes- Doug King
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