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Captain Has License Suspended for Failing to Avoid a Collision...
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:06:49 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: My Navigator was certainly not anywhere near the size of this river cruise ship but I remember being in the ICW somewhere in either North Carolina or South Carolina where the ICW channel took a sharp, almost ninety degree turn to the left. As I approached, just before the turn, there where about a hundred or more small, 10 to 16 foot fishing boats clogging the channel. A guy in a Grand Banks was behind me. I slowed down and put the boat in neutral, looking for a path to take to get through all the boats. The guy in the Grand Banks took a chance and went left of the channel markers and ran aground on a sand bar. The people fishing in the little boats just looked at me. They weren't about to move, so I slowly started weaving my way through the pack of boats, judiciously going between forward, reverse and neutral, using the twins screws to steer through them. Some gave me the finger as I passed close to them. I don't know what the deal was. They were all sitting right in the middle of the marked channel. Reminds you of the group of whatevers trying to annoy the crap out of anyone attempting to go about their business. You mean, like decent people annoying the neo-nazis? Do you fly the swastika on that Volvo powered yacht you keep telling us about? |
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