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Exactly the reason why , when I was crossing the Great Bahama Banks
In Response To: Motor boats are more prone to that accident. ()
after the second big motor yacht passed within 50 feet of us on a reciprocal course, with zero heads visible, I diverted a mile south of the charted rhumb line, and then resumed course
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- Have you seen this?
- Amazing! Was anyone paying attention?
- Read somewhere he was in the head
- Is that keeping watch?
- OK - I'll go ahead.....
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- Re: OK - I'll go ahead.....
- Motor boats are more prone to that accident.
- Exactly the reason why , when I was crossing the Great Bahama Banks
- I'd say the autopilot did a fine job of recovering course!
- Motor boats are more prone to that accident.
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- OK - I'll go ahead.....
- Is that keeping watch?
- Read somewhere he was in the head
- "If to starboard red appear, 'tis your duty to keep clear"
- So what exactly are the repercussions of that???
- From Director Vessel Traffic Service Puget Sound, U. S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound...
- I operate on the Bahama rules- Da biggest boat gots da right of way!!Also I tell crew
- I'm no old salt and don't know the 'rules' that well. But I think both are at fault.
- The power boat is clearly at fault
- I think it was 50/50
- Re: The power boat is clearly at fault... the ferry is not restricted by depth...
- The powerboat was in the exclusion zone around the ferry
- Do you think the accident still would have happened if the ferry operator had known that the
- I operate on the Bahama rules- Da biggest boat gots da right of way!!Also I tell crew
- From Director Vessel Traffic Service Puget Sound, U. S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound...
- Amazing! Was anyone paying attention?
