Bridge collision

Here is a picture of "vicious virgin", a crab boat in the Chesapeake.... I was under sail on a 43' tartan... and he was running on diesel.. he decided that he didn't need to alter his course at all... and I surely wasn't altering mine either.. he came within 20' of the stern... I think less.. but I'll go with that number.



Those crabbing boys out on the Chesapeake have it easy compared to the Alaskan guys, you'd think they could afford to actually give a sailboat the right of way.

I nearly hit a fisherman on my re-entry to the harbor here in Wisconsin last year.. it was an older gentleman with his grandson or something in the boat... his grandson just sat there and watched as I had to make a split second turn in order to avoid hitting them after they crossed my bow... I was probably a foot from him and I couldn't believe that the kid didn't even make a move or alert his grandpa. I really thought about just hitting him cause he blatantly violated my space and the rules of the water... instead I wanted to have a chat with him on land... but the wind didn't quite cooperate with me and he was able to get his boat out of the water and pull away before I had my cat on the dock.

Rude people suck!

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1982 H16 (C:\Worthy)
Yellow/White Prism type sails

I take it you could not contact him on the vhf, you should have gone to channel 16 and called the cops, he deserved it !!!

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Bodhisatfa

I think he was just trying to mess with us.. he was mad that he had to work while we were sailing leisurely out on the bay. We didn't try to raise him on vhf nor did we call the cops.. he probably deserved it but we didn't feel like dealing with the paperwork... we had plans for dinner and quite a bit of distance to cover.

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1982 H16 (C:\Worthy)
Yellow/White Prism type sails