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17-09-2016, 01:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Kemah, TX.
Boat: 1967 Chris Craft Commander 31
Posts: 466
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What do you do?
Seriously. Do you just watch your boat get smashed?
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17-09-2016, 02:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Boat in Puerto Lucia, Ecuador, Body in SE Australia, Heart in Patagonia....
Boat: Westerly Sealord
Posts: 6,202
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Re: What do you do?
Well... you certainly don't use your foot to fend off.... unless you want to walk with a limp for the rest of your days....
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17-09-2016, 05:08
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Hobart
Boat: Alloy Peterson 40
Posts: 3,919
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Re: What do you do?
I think thats where you discreetly throw a coil of floating line in the water and hope it fouls his props..
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17-09-2016, 05:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Whoo! Finally made it back to Mexico!
Boat: Cheoy Lee Offshore 38
Posts: 1,460
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Re: What do you do?
Weighted monkeys fist thrown with lightning speed?
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17-09-2016, 05:34
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s/v Jeune Amelie

Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Boat: Nelson/Marek 50
Posts: 1,756
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Re: What do you do?
Was there even a slip he was aiming for?
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17-09-2016, 05:48
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: '76 Allied Seawind II, 32'
Posts: 8,314
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Re: What do you do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by DDabs
Was there even a slip he was aiming for?
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I got the impression he was trying to leave the fairway
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17-09-2016, 05:50
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Freelance Delivery Skipper..


Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 25,336
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Re: What do you do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Dreaming
Weighted monkeys fist thrown with lightning speed?
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Whoa..!! A 'Real' Seawoman... many will be Googling that one..  
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17-09-2016, 06:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Boat: Club Sailor; various
Posts: 922
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Re: What do you do?
So they finally decide to put out fenders at the 4:20 mark? Really painful to watch. I feel for the guy. Knock on wood I've never hit another boat but I've been trapped in narrow fairway hell with adverse wind and current before and it ain't fun. I thought power boats were supposed to be easier to control than sailboats.
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17-09-2016, 06:35
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Baltimore, MD / Albany, NY
Boat: Alberg 35
Posts: 263
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Re: What do you do?
A guy like this hit the stern of my Alberg 35 in June this year. Ripped off the wooden cap rail and did some damage to the fiberglass, $4,500 in all (his insurance paid). I discovered that he had hit three other boats in separate incidents. The problem isn't just that this skipper was having a bad day, it's that they make many bad days.
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s/v Pendragon Alberg 35 #175
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17-09-2016, 06:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: texas coast
Boat: Westsail28
Posts: 87
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Re: What do you do?
OK.... It appears that the boat is attempting to turn around.
There is a crosswind(check flags)
The boat has lots of freeboard.
It has one engine.
Maybe a dirty prop.
His main problem is he does not know his boat.
When is the last time you've seen a boater practicing touch and goes in his slip.
Or take his boat out out in less than ideal conditions(just to see how she handles it).
I kind of feel sorry for the guy but, really feel sorry for anyone downwind of him.
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17-09-2016, 07:37
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Michigan/Bocas del Toro Panama
Boat: Corbin 39
Posts: 246
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Re: What do you do?
The guy is trying to dock a twin engine boat with one engine. I've been there before but not like that. With one engine it's difficult to pull alongside a fuel dock, backing into a slip like he is trying to do is not possible. The crosswind is just icing on the cake. He must be running on liquid courage.
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17-09-2016, 07:47
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Freelance Delivery Skipper..


Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 25,336
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Re: What do you do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by toddedger
The guy is trying to dock a twin engine boat with one engine. I've been there before but not like that. With one engine it's difficult to pull alongside a fuel dock, backing into a slip like he is trying to do is not possible. The crosswind is just icing on the cake. He must be running on liquid courage.
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Liquid Idiocy more like..
Common sense would dictate use the wind to advantage.. even if it means going bow in.. as opposed to the stern..
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17-09-2016, 09:32
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: PNW 48.59'45N 122.45'50W
Boat: Ian Ross design ketch 63'
Posts: 1,323
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Re: What do you do?
Quote:
Originally Posted by quill
OK.... It appears that the boat is attempting to turn around.
When is the last time you've seen a boater practicing touch and goes in his slip.
Or take his boat out out in less than ideal conditions(just to see how she handles it).
I kind of feel sorry for the guy but, really feel sorry for anyone downwind of him.
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Actually I jut spent the summer watching somewhere between 10-12 boats practicing touch and goes and sailing into a dock. And using different slips to manage various conditions.
It was very very cool. We're new to this area, but some very respectable sailors out here...
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17-09-2016, 14:02
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#15
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep

Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,876
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Re: What do you do?
get his name , the police report and submit your claims. pray he has more than merely liability.
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