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Was your future wife the one that made the hole in the Soling? :-) No, but talking to her may have made me slightly less attentive Actually, I saw the other guy but Boston Harbor used to be (and probably still is) full of hotshots who like to skim your transom on port tack like they were in a race. By the time I realized he wasn't going to do this, it was too late to take evasive action. The burdened boat is supposed to maintain a predictable course anyway although there is a fine line between doing this and failing to take action to avoid a collision. I fault myself for not verifying that I saw a pair of eyes, or at least a head, and learned. His story was that he was in a channel and I was crossing it so he had the right of way. It was arguably a channel because the area is heavily buoyed and ones in the area were arranged to guide larger boats to the gaps between a couple of islands but it was not charted as such and we each would have had 20 feet of water under our keels anywhere within half a mile. -- Roger Long |
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