74 MY as a Motor Sailor

[JLR]

I was looking through some photos of this past summer. The boat in the picture is my 74 MY docked at Montauk Yacht Club. Sure looks like I have turned it into a motor sailor.

 

[DCMY #92]

Nice try, but the sailboat docked behind her is pointing the wrong direction.

 

[SEVEN]

Good catch. But it sure would easy to back up with a stiff breeze.

 

[JLR]

Omni-directional MY.

 

[krush]

blow-boater at heart, eh?

 

[JLR]

Funny you should say that. Last year, just after pulling into Montauk Harbor, right in front of the Coast Guard Station, a twentyish foot blow boat under power and ahead of me off my starboard bow decides to do a 180 just about the time I am passing him at slow bell. Well, I put both engines in reverse and avoided T-boning him. It turns out it was a ten year old or so fellow learning how to run the sail boat while his father was supervising. I guess neither decided to look behind them before making the maneuver. No, not a blow boater at heart. and yes, really, really happy when I see that puff of smoke coming out the transom indicating the egg-beater engine is on and they can be treated like a powerboat.

 

[krush]

How about this one? Big guy moving about 5 knots.

In case you don't see it in the above pic....here's a few seconds later.

 

[Avenger]

There's no pictures, but I was on the bridge wing of one of Hess' product tankers and saw the same thing. Blowboat crosses and just vanishes under the bow for a good five minutes. If we'd hit it nobody would have known unless they were watching to see it not reappear on the other side. 900 ft loaded tanker, no stopping, no turning, no way. Crazy ba$!ard or just clueless I don't know but a really stupid move.

 

[jim rosenthal]

See How To Avoid Huge Ships, a bestseller on AMAZON.

 

[Avenger]

The comments about it on Amazon are a much better read.

 

[krush]

A search on amazon for "How To Avoid Huge Ships" also turned up these titles (for serious):

Images You Should Not Masturbate To
All My Friends Are Dead
How Not to Be a Dick: An Everyday Etiquette Guide
A Practical Guide to Racism
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Dancing with Jesus: Featuring a Host of Miraculous Moves
Unicorns Are Jerks: A Coloring Book Exposing the Cold, Hard, Sparkly Truth
Extreme Ironing
How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books
Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price
F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What

 

[jim rosenthal]

The comments about it on Amazon are a much better read.

No question, there are a couple of thousand of them and they are seriously funny.

 

[q240z]

And yet, every damn time I take my boat to Georgetown, the local DC geniuses demonstrate a profoundly confusing desire to put themselves under my boat. They should all be required to read the book and pass the test before heading out in their kayaks.

 

[krush]

The DC granola idiot libtard assholes are lacking in mental capacity. It's amazing, one of the most high concentration of "educated" people in the world, but they are all braindead.

 

[Walter P]

Remember Krush, educated does not mean they have common sense or knowledge of everything not related to their field of school housing.

Walt