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LMAO! Hey, I have never gone to sleep on my boat while on a course closing with a coastline... 
In Response To: Sleeping while the boat approaches washing ashore... who could it happen to? 
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() ...but, when the AAA batteries in your Raymarine autopilot remote go dead and kick the pilot into STANDBY, all bets are off... That's my story, and I'm sticking to it... (grin)
Happens to the best of them, Jeanne Socrates' wound up on a Mexican beach, 75 miles short of completion of her first circumnavigation, when the above occurred to her...
Then, there's Francis Joyon, my ultimate sailing hero, certainly one of the greatest sailors of our time...
You take a nap, and take your chances... (grin)
http://www.panbo.com/archives/2005/07/rude_awakening_the_idec_crash.html
Messages In This Thread
- darn that chartplotter!!!!!
- I don't know for sure, of course, but I suspect the captain was below, face glued to his screen,....
- No rock, heres what the emergency management coordinator says:
- Asleep??? What kind of error is that?
- Yup, that would have been my guess...
- Sleeping while the boat approaches washing ashore... who could it happen to?
- Before todays Garmin programmed sailors began piling up on rocks and beaches,
- LMAO! Hey, I have never gone to sleep on my boat while on a course closing with a coastline...
- Before todays Garmin programmed sailors began piling up on rocks and beaches,
- Sleeping while the boat approaches washing ashore... who could it happen to?
- Asleep??? What kind of error is that?
- No rock, heres what the emergency management coordinator says:
- I heard it's expensive to park at the casinos
- There is a Tow Boat attempting pull it off now
- I don't know for sure, of course, but I suspect the captain was below, face glued to his screen,....