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Not to blame the victim . . . BUT :
The article in the most current issue of "Soundings" about the recent L.I. Sound collision-caused death (from a heart attack triggered by the crash) of an otherwise *very* experienced/skillful and also asssertedly safety-oriented captain/sailor when the J-105 in which he was sleeping, crewed by his son and a friend, was motoring late at night in the fog toward Block Island and was hit and sunk by a large commercial cruiser reports that the J-105's two crew saw the approaching motor boat (said to be moving at +/- 6 kts) but could not disengage their autopilot in time to take evasive action. How many of us who occasionally (or, for that matter, lots of the time) use these sorts of instruments actually insure that, f'rinstance, to disengage an autopilot, etc., Etc. (however "simple"/easy [and "obvious"?] one [who is experienced] might think that and related operations ought be and usually are)? |
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