I don't call on the
VHF... I head for skinny, skinny water... with a board up draft of 18"... I go where I KNOW they won't try to.
If I have to deal with a big boat, and have to be in waters he can actually enter... I will hail them and tell ask them their intentions.
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Originally Posted by Plumper
Just make sure you call on VHF before you depart from the rules to make sure that the other guy knows what you are doing. He may have already made an adjustment for you that you can't appreciate yet. Remember, he is looking a lot farther ahead than you are. |
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Sailingdog
Telstar 28
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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