San Francisco Bay - It's been an eventful Bay Area visit for the yacht
Maltese Falcon. First
sailing under the gate in glorious sunshine, then testing the
mega-yacht's new submersible, and now, getting T-boned by what looks like a Perry-designed
Nordic 40 named
Stand By. At the point of
collision, it looks in the photos like the
Maltese Falcon is on a port tack, but then the other
boat looks like it's head-to-wind. According to an eyewitness who prefers to remain anonymous: "Everything was cool, the Maltese was sailing well, and the
sloop was sailing well, and then shortly before the
collision, the
sloop appeared to change course. I can't be sure, but it looked like the sloop may have tacked onto the collision course."
The damage to the sloop looks limited to the bow, while the
Maltese Falcon has some damage to its topside, rail, and one of the
sails was torn by the sloop's
rigging. We'll let the
insurance companies debate the COLREGS, but it seems you'd have to go out of your way to T-bone something as big as the
Maltese Falcon, and "right-of-way" doesn't apply when one of the vessels is restricted by sheer size. On the other hand, might doesn't make right.
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