"Joe" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
Since I didn't see
them previously, must have come out of another side channel. (They do
this a
lot.)


I bet a lot of sailboat jump out without looking and checking with
traffic. Do you check with concerned traffic when you enter the
shipping lanes?

I do, but you're right. I bet a lot don't. This is a fairly crowded
channel,
and I believe the sailboats that frequent the channel are generally
pretty
careful. I know I am.

Let me see if I'm a gittin this right.

You talked to Traffic control and they did not advise you of the tow
entering the channel?

A couple of things... 1) Tug wasn't "entering the channel." The side channel
is about 200 feet deep. It's used for parking barges, tugs, misc.

No one would call Traffic unless there was dense fog. This was a situation
of a tug probably moving from one berth to another rather than engaging in
operations.

Did they provide you with any traffic information? I mean thats thier
job, and if they did not you could have the pee-on advising traffic
sent to the Captains mast for proper punishment.

Just wtf did they advise you of ?



I can't imagine the damage had he
hit us with one of those huge vertical bumpers.


Well.... if he had bumbers you might of bounced off him ;0)


Either that or we would have been caught between them. The distance
between
them is wider than my boat.

Sort of like this, but not quite...
http://www.oceanmarine.com/tug%20images/4739tg1.jpg or this

A push boat with old tires...Thats what you call huge? Thats a HOJ
Jon, any two bit 100 tonner could run a **** pile like that.

Huh? I posted a link to a tug that regularly *pushes*. It didn't have any
tires on it.

http://www.tugboat.org/

Well call them pushboats, all inland type work. The pilot/captain is
not "way up there", as you described.

I thought you crossed paths with a real mans barge and tug:
http://www.vesselrepair.com/orion_poseidon.jpg

You're not embelishing your account of the days journey are you?

I'm writing what happened. Sorry if that's confusing for you.

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