Run Over by a Fishing Boat!

[adoxograph]

Originally Posted by peter57

Well, bugger me! I did not know that Europe was saved by a bunch of totten civilian yachtie's. Maybe anchored on the HOOK at a SANDY beach.

A friendly reminder: Some guys with guns started the whole crap and not some "totten civilian yachtie's ... anchored on the HOOK at a SANDY beach". Guys with guns started it by shooting at other guys with guns who ended it - or not.

Yachtie's (at least the ones I know) would rather have have a sundowner than a gunfight ... just saying.

[downunder]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Please no more gun conversations?
Can we discuss something less controversial.

We do recall your Post 47

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Originally Posted by a64pilot View Post
Please no more gun conversations?
Can we discuss something less controversial.

[GTom]

Originally Posted by ardoin

Last week i was in Le Lagoon St Martin at dusk in my dink with an all round white light mounted on the engine and a head lamp when a twin engine fishing boat doing 40+kts ran me over. I saw this coming and at the last minute turned to starboard and the fishing boat hit my engine and left some bad rug burn on my port tube plus 4 inches of water in my dink. The guy did turn around to see if i was still alive.
But my new outboard cover is split, my light broken off, and I have a huge bruise on my back where the engine hit me as I hunkered down and turned to starboard.
So for all of you, even if you have the required lighting (2nm) at dusk, don't assume that they see you. If i didn't turn in those last few seconds I would be dead, or in the hospital recovering from twin 300 HP engines.

Wow, wish you and your boat fast recovery! Being a novice, I didn't know that a set of WWI contact mines should be standard accessory for mooring...

[peter57]

Originally Posted by adoxograph

A friendly reminder: Some guys with guns started the whole crap and not some "totten civilian yachtie's ... anchored on the HOOK at a SANDY beach". Guys with guns started it by shooting at other guys with guns who ended it - or not.

Yachtie's (at least the ones I know) would rather have have a sundowner than a gunfight ... just saying.

You took my quote wrong. It was relating to the quote that the right to bear arms saved Europe.

I am with your quote about yachties but against the right to bear arms.

One good thing John Howard (an Austrailian Prime Minster) accomplished, was the Australian Gun Laws. Even if he has been quoted as being a War Criminal.

[Zanshin]

When you say "le Lagoon" were you actually inside the lagoon? No boats (theoretically) are allowed to have a wake on both the French and Dutch side of the lagoon. Which side did this happen on?

[peter57]

Originally Posted by Group9

I'll thank my father for you.

Yes, Please thank your father, we owe a lot to those mens, sacrifices.

The Right to bear arms is now nuclear. With countries like Pakistan joining the club, maybe with their top command being responsible but sure as, there will be a Jihadi down the line of command and the consequences may not be good.

[lotek]

Originally Posted by Capt Phil

It is amazing what a couple of rounds of .223 through the windscreen will do to slow down a fast moving power boat! Phil

I was thinking a flare gun but OK.

[Caribbeachbum]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Please no more gun conversations?
Can we discuss something less controversial.

The god conversation was going almost as nicely as the gun one until the wacky math guy showed up. We need more Godel proofs!

[Group9]

Originally Posted by peter57

You took my quote wrong. It was relating to the quote that the right to bear arms saved Europe.

I am with your quote about yachties but against the right to bear arms.

One good thing John Howard (an Austrailian Prime Minster) accomplished, was the Australian Gun Laws. Even if he has been quoted as being a War Criminal.

We get it. You have some Freudian thing with guns going on. Don't you have a shrink or something you can work this out with instead of injecting it into boating threads?

[rwidman]

Originally Posted by StuM

You mean you missed the 200 odd post thread here?
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...de-176756.html

Lots of discussion about who was "in the wrong" and why.

Apparently I did miss it. I don't read every post and I guess the title didn't catch my attention.

[Capt Phil]

My apologies if I contributed to bringing up guns!
My entire family from when my great great grandfather came to Canada has hunted for their meat every fall and I was brought up in a gun culture where that was not only necessary to eat but you had had to clean and service your firearm and know how to field dress a moose!
To those who know without doubt that their meat comes from Safeway, Albertsons or Coles neatly wrapped in cellophane in the cooler section, my apologies... don't mean to burst your bubble but that ain't the source.
Live and let live and try to accept the other folks point of view rather than change perhaps hundreds of years of behaviors and beliefs.
Just don't try and run me down in a power boat! Phil

[adoxograph]

Originally Posted by Caribbeachbum

The god conversation was going almost as nicely as the gun one until the wacky math guy showed up. We need more Godel proofs!

wacky math guy ... nice

[peter57]

Originally Posted by Group9

We get it. You have some Freudian thing with guns going on. Don't you have a shrink or something you can work this out with instead of injecting it into boating threads?

It was other posters who started the injection of guns into the thread.

I from Aust, we don't need shrinks for gun problems, that seems to be prevalent in some other countries, I'll let you guess.

[boatman61]

The ferries and other power boats tend to open up once clear of the French Bridge channel.. usually hit the throttle 100metres into the curve as they come out.. one reason I get well clear of the channel as soon as I'm through from the Bay and go round close to the Witches Tit when heading down to Pallapa or Lagoonies.

[Group9]

Originally Posted by peter57

It was other posters who started the injection of guns into the thread.

I from Aust, we don't need shrinks for gun problems, that seems to be prevalent in some other countries, I'll let you guess.

And, yet, here you are.