On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:45:01 -0600, slide
wrote:

On 10/29/2013 9:33 PM, Wayne.B wrote:

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The bow wave seems to have pushed them away, and they might possibly
have escaped with no damage if the spinnaker hadn't hung up on the
anchor.


I was surprised to see so many yachts sailing near that ship and also
the ship making such way. I mean it seemed to be really zooming along.
Looked like an overly congested area ripe for such an incident.

The large amount of money wasn't the fines or the demasting it
was the cost of the prosecution.