Insane. This is why you always wear a life vest in a smaller boat.
PFD, all day every day
25 miles offshore, anchored, taug fishing, 24" Albemarle. Dude in a 50+ foot Carolina style is down in the salon getting more coffee. Nobody on the bridge. Bearing down on us, we are getting ready to abandon ship, he comes running up from below just in time. Missed us by no more than 8 feet. Hails us on ch 16 to apologize and tell us he just went below for a few seconds. Said he never saw us. We had him switch up to a new channel and had his a$$! Be careful out there, the others aren't looking out for you sometimes!
Sailed over 30,000 miles and almost every problem I ever had was in the inter coastal waterway south of the Georgia Line.
I don't know how many miles I've sailed. Been in the Atlantic ocean, Pacific ocean, Caribbean sea & Mediterranean sea. We never had any issues at all. I'm gonna guess it was those big guns that kept the ####headery to a very low level.
Not the big guns, the gross tons. Bigger boat always has right of way in my book of Mariner's Rules of the Road!
Not the big guns, the gross tons. Bigger boat always has right of way in my book of Mariner's Rules of the Road!