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svHyLyte · 31-12-2007, 14:59

Yesterday morning the winds were really honking out of the south-south-east all over the Florida mid-peninsula. Twenty to twenty-five knots with gusts in the 30's. I have just completed writing up a collision report on another boat--a 35' power boat--that tried to exit its slip, broadside to the wind, in the middle of that and was promptly blown down on the yachts to his leeward, all this in a yacht basin.

The yacht at Lake Worth Inlet was attempting to leave by reaching in heavy winds against an incoming 2 knt flood and breaking seas. Absent a strong engine, he could not possibly have made enough speed to have cleared the jetty before being set down on the rocks to leeward. I cannot imagine what would have possessed him to have made such a foolish attempt.

s/v HyLyte

31-12-2007, 14:59	#5
svHyLyte Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tampa Bay area, USA Boat: Beneteau First 42 Posts: 993	Collision Report Yesterday morning the winds were really honking out of the south-south-east all over the Florida mid-peninsula. Twenty to twenty-five knots with gusts in the 30's. I have just completed writing up a collision report on another boat--a 35' power boat--that tried to exit its slip, broadside to the wind, in the middle of that and was promptly blown down on the yachts to his leeward, all this in a yacht basin. The yacht at Lake Worth Inlet was attempting to leave by reaching in heavy winds against an incoming 2 knt flood and breaking seas. Absent a strong engine, he could not possibly have made enough speed to have cleared the jetty before being set down on the rocks to leeward. I cannot imagine what would have possessed him to have made such a foolish attempt. s/v HyLyte __________________ "It is not so much for its beauty that the sea makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from the waves, that so wonderfully renews a weary spirit."