This past summer we did see the
Direction, a commercial lobster fishing boat out of New Bedford, ram a big green lighted buoy that is along the New Bedford harbor entrance channel. We were about 150' away, and I was saying to my crew, "They see that buoy don't they?" Nope, apparently not... the scary part is this boat is homeported in New Bedford and probably goes by that buoy every three or four days.
They hit it so dead square that it got knocked down, after snapping the bow pulpit, and they ended up riding over it—only to have it come back up and push them out of the way.
Pretty impressive bang it made too.
I think the funniest part of the whole situation was seeing someone pop up into view on the bridge of the boat and watch them run across the bridge after the big BANG occurred.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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