We were drifting in a crowed area, boats all around, dude in a steel 42 foot schooner was motoring out of the Inlet through many boats when he decided to put it on autopilot and go below and make a sandwich.

I don't know what the mind set of such people is. Do they think they are on some long ocean passage?

In any case that dude just barely grazed the whisker stays of my then old boat. We got really lucky no one was killed and I felt really stupid about making assumptions that people are on watch and wouldn't just run into a sailing sailboat going nowhere on a crowded sunny mid day weekend. I don't know what we could have done since my engine didn't work at the time but we could have done something.

Ever since then I've been avoiding people with great effort. I can't count the times I've had to radically change course for both sail and power boats, sailors always motoring of course. This is happening all the time that I'm under sail. In fact other than making the dash across the Cow Trail at Smith Island I have never depended on my right of way due to being under sail since the day of this collision.

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I do remember folks on the CWBB saying stuff like "there's always another side to the story" when I told the story the next day. But the fact is what it is. We were sitting still sails up, no engine running, and a dude in a "Blue Water Cruiser" ran the f%k right into us.

I'm pretty sure the boat and the dude are this guy:

http://www.sommerstravels.com/?page_id=2

I guess he's someone now with a blog and ocean travels and all while I'm still just a working stiff trying to pay for my time off, but I still think he's an asshole. Had the nerve to come on deck as he was about to crush us and say something like, "well if you weren't just sitting there"....

Sheesh.....