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boat collision, could this mean manslaughter charges?
Tim wrote:
On Jul 14, 11:09 pm, Guru of Woodstock wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:51:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jul 14, 9:47 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:49:52 -0400, Gene wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:33:41 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:24 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote: I have a one word answer.... a get out of jail card, if you will.... RADAR. That one off East Passage I never saw on radar - it was lost in clutter and by the time I got close enough to get a strong return, it would have been too late. That being the case, I can only recommend "Preparation H!" Heh... As you know, radar can look behind structure and land masses. One time I was heading up the Stonington Channel to the Watch Hill Yacht club to put in over night. Visibility was down to about 1/2 mile and decreasing - I was just moving along at about 15 knots and as I approached Napatree Point, I took a close look at the radar - didn't see anything at first, but I looked a little closer and just saw what I thought was part of the beach move a little. Let me explain about Napatree Point - the channel at that place is about 13 feet wide at low tide - the green buoy marks the exact size of the channel as opposed to the flats which are about two feet deep at extreme low tide which this was - the red buoy is actually Napatree Point. Anyway, discretion the better part of valor, I sounded my horn, didn't hear anything, couldn't see anything behind the dunes, radar still didn't show anything significant, but I waited anyway. Around comes a dragger - Miss Martha which is the biggest dragger out of Pawcatuck - 90 foot low profile, mid-ship pilot house - state of the art. Miss Martha's captain was as surprised as I was - we talked about it on ch 13. Neither one of us thought to check the local working channel. :) Use all the tools at your disposal was the lesson that day. :) Well that was a good day that both boats didn't kiss and make up.... Almost did one time with Scott - scared the heck out of him when the 50 something foot Viking came around the Napatree Point corner. Wimp. :) It would have scared the stuffing out of me too. OK,,, Double wimp! ?;^ Q I ain't sayin' nuttin'.. |
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