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26-12-2013, 08:25
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Knoxville
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Avoiding Huge Ships!
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26-12-2013, 08:34
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: vancouver, canada
Boat: hunter 376
Posts: 623
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
After reading the ads and reviews, I still have no idea what the subject matter is about.
I'm thinking the ships are some kind of metaphor or analogy, kind of like "Who moved my Cheese." isn't really about cheese.
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26-12-2013, 09:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
Stay out of there way...?
Picture is deceiving, not on a collision course, but the boat operator ( little boat) sure put a lot of trust in his engine. Gotta wonder what the ship captains think of us pleasure boaters, zooming around him like he can stop if need be.
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26-12-2013, 09:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
This guy is crossing his bow.
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26-12-2013, 10:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: From Cape Town now New Caledonia
Boat: Lagoon 440
Posts: 962
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
AIS ... been a lifesaver for us .... especially when approaching Panama Canal! I really cannot understand cruisers who have not equipped their vessels with AIS
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26-12-2013, 10:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,533
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
I really enjoy seeing the large ships pass by. They are very impressive.
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26-12-2013, 20:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Oakland, CA
Boat: Freedom 38
Posts: 2,503
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
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Originally Posted by shorebird
After reading the ads and reviews, I still have no idea what the subject matter is about.
I'm thinking the ships are some kind of metaphor or analogy, kind of like "Who moved my Cheese." isn't really about cheese. |
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing, and I see it's $255 new, which makes me think it's intended for commercial mariners. (Actually, now that I read a few more reviews, it's obviously a joke. Good one.)
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27-12-2013, 04:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Homer, AK is my home port
Boat: Skookum 53'
Posts: 4,042
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
Big ships are deceiving, they are so big it is hard to judge their speed, they move really fast, usually 20+ knots for tankers. I try never to cross ahead of a tanker.
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27-12-2013, 04:17
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,533
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
Yep, I wouldn't want to cross in front of this guy even if my powerful big 5 hp 4 stroke is running smooth..............
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27-12-2013, 05:51
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CF Adviser
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,942
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
I have to admit I was initially sceptical about this book, but after plunking down $250 US for a copy, I'm now a True Believer! 
Here's only one of the totally fool-proof techniques for avoiding big ships, heretofore only know by professional seamen like Boatman61, Atoll and goboatingnow, but now freely available to the rest of us swabs...
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27-12-2013, 06:12
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hud3
I have to admit I was initially sceptical about this book, but after plunking down $250 US for a copy, I'm now a True Believer!
Here's only one of the totally fool-proof techniques for avoiding big ships, heretofore only know by professional seamen like Boatman61, Atoll and goboatingnow, but now freely available to the rest of us swabs...
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Thanks Hud. This diagram I am sure will save my life. It will certainly save me from spending $255 to buy the book.
After hearing about this book I don't know how I managed to travel so many years and thousands of miles at sea and managed to stay alive.
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27-12-2013, 06:35
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,415
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
I clicked the link and it said that people who had read the page had also looked at: Flosted Flakes and Uranium Ore
makes me wonder 
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27-12-2013, 06:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,533
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Re: Avoiding Huge Ships!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hud3
I have to admit I was initially sceptical about this book, but after plunking down $250 US for a copy, I'm now a True Believer!
Here's only one of the totally fool-proof techniques for avoiding big ships, heretofore only know by professional seamen like Boatman61, Atoll and goboatingnow, but now freely available to the rest of us swabs...
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I like that boat the "you" guy is on. Anyone know what type it is?
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