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No, sailboat. Keel/Centerboard + rudder that raises vertically
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The centerboard slid up over the wreck but the rudder shattered.
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I don't like to see this....another reason for not putting the boat in charter....
No, indeed.
"When they noticed the ledge on the plotter, it was too late,”
My charts show the ledge..
Some boats, when laying on their sides
There is always what is in the paper, and what isn't....
Some details from my "source".....
All aids to navigation were in place when we passed through there less than 2 weeks ago.
I once mistook a buoy marking a wreck for a mooring ball (it looked like a ball), sailed near it....
Power boat?
I seen some sailboats with a big space 'tween keel and rudder....stuff happens....
Re: Power boat?
No, sailboat. Keel/Centerboard + rudder that raises vertically
ouch.
"The east-west passage south of Stonington at the tip of Deer Isle is complicated."
If you get 'shot' on a ledge, might as well be Ben Mendlowitz behind the lens.