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Schooner Appledore....
In Response To: I was talking to a friend last night, that also hit that rock. 
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() That's a name I haven't thought of in years.....I chartered that boat in the Carribean in the early 80's. Built in Maine, her maiden voyage was around the world. She still does day sails out of Key West in the winters.
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- Hylas 70 on the Rocks (near Camden)
- Blow-up
- Route to Pulpit
- Autoguidance is another one.....
- Really no good excuses
- "Low" not 'load" tide (another dumb typing mistake) :^))
- That pic also show why the mast broke just above the boom
- Perhaps that boat needed a 3rd plotter, to break any potential "tie"...
- "owners FIRST boat was a Hylas 54..." Bingo Jon!
- LOL! Uhhh, re-read the second sentence of my post, please... (grin)
- "Not that it's particularly relevant", good point(any relevance, at all...?). You're like a lazy prosecutor, Jon,
- OK, so it has no relevance whatsoever...
- I almost hit a sea buoy this weekend
- If you hit one between the hulls, it is oh shit!
- Modern autopilots.
- Only if...
- Our B&G and the Simrad (a/k/a Robertson) go to the route line unless you hit reset.
- But what if you don't set a waypoint or course?
- It creates a two point line -- like a leg of a route
- No I don't think we're talking about the same thing
- Incidents and resulting discussions like this one are precisely why...
- It creates a two point line -- like a leg of a route
- But what if you don't set a waypoint or course?
- Our B&G and the Simrad (a/k/a Robertson) go to the route line unless you hit reset.
- Only if...
- I almost hit a sea buoy this weekend
- OK, so it has no relevance whatsoever...
- "Not that it's particularly relevant", good point(any relevance, at all...?). You're like a lazy prosecutor, Jon,
- LOL! Uhhh, re-read the second sentence of my post, please... (grin)
- the Hylas 54 is really a wonderful, large, well designed, cruising boat.
- "owners FIRST boat was a Hylas 54..." Bingo Jon!
- Not to quible - but they had one under the dodger too.
- "Low" not 'load" tide (another dumb typing mistake) :^))
- Whoa Al! Do you really speculate the captain plugged a waypoint through islands and reefs, and set sail?
- I was talking to a friend last night, that also hit that rock.
