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.

You see that in San Francisco Bay also. Lots of sail racing near the
Golden Gate Bridge and is in the VTS area.

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.

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It obviously was congested but that video was shot with a very long
telephoto lens which tends to compress distances quite a lot.

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

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

===

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.