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Understandable. Thanks Dan and Rey for filling us in. 
In Response To: Right, it wasn't yesterday as I thought. ()
It's hard to tell if the Dock and Go had anything to do with the accident. One report says the engine failed and steering with it?
Could it just be a case of locked up steering in a tight channel? Sounds like the captain knew his stuff well. Accidents happen, sorry your friend lost the boat.
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- Damn, 'French Kiss', our friends boat, lost at Fort Pierce Inlet.
- 'Dock and Go' locked up the onboard computer and couldn't be overridden
- they couldn't turn it off and go manual?
- The Jeaneau computerized system had 18 out of 18 failures in it's similar system.
- I thought you and Ray going to help
- Unbelievable!
- Hate to even suggest this, but my first thought was...
- Bow thruster and AP have same potential
- We cannot realistically expect complex
- they couldn't turn it off and go manual?
- Going to venture a guess... loss of power and not prepared...
- Below decks autopilots
- Me thinks it is a rare situation...
- I saw French Kiss being towed...
- Dan?
- Right, it wasn't yesterday as I thought.
- Understandable. Thanks Dan and Rey for filling us in.
- Understandable. Thanks Dan and Rey for filling us in.
- Dan?
- Into the rocks story . .
- 'Dock and Go' locked up the onboard computer and couldn't be overridden