T&T: Fishermen, wakes and other such things.

[Jeff Bacon]

As a sailboater, exclusively, It's a shame that these issues occur. 
Others have offered reasons (batteries, radio only at Nav station) but I 
think these are actually excuses, not reasons.

There really is no reason not to monitor and respond to radio traffic on 
two levels..... courtesy and emergencies.

My own thought is that too many sailboaters were brought up with the 
notion that sailboats have the Right of Way to the exclusion of everyone 
else, including common courtesy, and, too few of those sailboaters have 
taken the time to know and understand what their, and others, boats will 
do and behave like in any given situation.

If you see "Manatee" on the ICW heading south next summer / winter, give 
me a call. I guarantee an answer and will appreciate the effort.

Jeff

Bill Allen wrote:

>Well it's a shame, I encountered quite a few sail boats that wouldn't 
>answer. I even had one (a small boat) hog the very middle of the dismal 
>swamp, never answered, never moved over, made me go way over to get around 
>him and wound up hitting something fortunally no damage. Than flipped me 
>off. I mean a handheld would work just fine for these situaions. Bill
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <dd@gregsteckel.com>
>To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:20 AM
>Subject: Re: T&T: Fishermen, wakes and other such things.
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>>As an ex-sailboater, I think I can answer that for you - most smaller
>>sailboats (30' to 40') do not have radios in the cockpit and can not
>>normally hear the VHF from below or elect to ignore it; some also keep the
>>radio off unless needed to save battery when under sail.
>>
>>
>>Greg Steckel
>>M/V Different Drummer
>>President 35 Sundeck
>>Frog Mortar Creek, MD
>>
>>www.chesapeaketrawlering.com
>>www.fmyc.org
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Ralph
>> To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: T&T: Fishermen, wakes and other such things.
>>
>>
>> In over half a century of bluewater boating, I have never been able to
>>make
>> radio contact with a sailboat. For some unfathomable reason, sailboaters
>>do
>> not monitor their radios. Every week-end I hear the Navy trying to make
>> contact with a sailboat to no avail. I guess it's a "sailboat" thing to 
>>be
>> oblivious to ones surroundings.
>>
>> Ralph Salerno
>> M/V ANCORA
>> Warm & sunny San Diego
>>
>> > down the ICW.  As he overtakes a sailboat under power, he attempts to
>>hail
>> the
>> > boat to organize a "slow pass" but doesn't get an answer from the
>> sailboat.
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