"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Bryan" wrote in message
news I don't think there was anything subtle about his total disregard of
the rules of the road.....all close quarter passes with no regard to
the safety of the other boats or the possible catastrophic
consequences of his maneuvers.


I don't know. It looks like a typical mid-summer Saturday afternoon
outside of Scituate Harbor, MA.

Eisboch
Don't go anywhere near Annapolis Harbor on a Sunday in the summer.
You'll be run down by sailboters who care not a whit for the rules of
the road or anything else.

At the risk of ****ing off any resident blow boaters, I have to agree
100%. Why, when they have power, do they insist on sailing all the way
down a crowded, busy, narrow harbor channel, tacking back and forth
within 40-50 feet? Even at 5 knots, my Navigator won't stop on a dime to
avoid them when they suddenly decide to tack to port from the other side
of the channel.

Eisboch

When they start behaving that way, I simply stop the boat and force them
to jibe to avoid hitting me. I don't do this in the middle of a channel,
but in the Annapolis area, no matter what you are doing with your boat,
even if you are anchored way out of the channel and either fishing or
daydreaming, you stand a good chance of being rammed by a blowboter.

I don't know if you know the inlet, but St. Augustine Inlet, which dumps
into the ocean, almost always has a southerly wind blowing across it, and
a heavy tidal current. At least once a week when I lived there, some
sailbaoter would run aground on the soft sand of Vilano Beach there while
trying to run the inlet under sail. These were sailboats with engines.

Call the Coast Guard and tell them the captain's chugging directly out of a
bottle of some sort of brown liquor.