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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: FRANKIE2]
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05/10/2022 11:18 AM
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Radio reports of 51 ft power cat aground off Anegada with damage to both rudders and powershafts. Apparently not taking on water. No other details. Last trip, I saw a power cat going straight into Setting Point (From North Sound area), ignoring the crowd that were all head to the outer channel marker. No grounding that I could identify, but likely a matter of luck and not skill.
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: tradewinds]
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05/10/2022 12:58 PM
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Time Will Tell
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We saw a power cat come barreling in like a ferry boat and came to a dead stop when they hit the reef. I imagine that my reaction to that would be a cross between heartbreaking horror and laughing my [censored] off at the idiot who finally got what they deserved!
Peter s/y Time Will Tell (2019 Lagoon 42) peter@syTimeWillTell.com
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: Time Will Tell]
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05/10/2022 01:21 PM
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We saw a power cat come barreling in like a ferry boat and came to a dead stop when they hit the reef. I imagine that my reaction to that would be a cross between heartbreaking horror and laughing my [censored] off at the idiot who finally got what they deserved! Don't know the details of this incident, but likely not done by the owner and not what the owner deserved 
M4000 "Lio Kai"
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: MrEZgoin]
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05/10/2022 03:11 PM
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We saw a power cat come barreling in like a ferry boat and came to a dead stop when they hit the reef. I imagine that my reaction to that would be a cross between heartbreaking horror and laughing my [censored] off at the idiot who finally got what they deserved! Don't know the details of this incident, but likely not done by the owner and not what the owner deserved  I don't know any more than what has been written here, and I agree, likely not the owner of boat. I don't make a judgement about what the owner deserved or not (and I also agree with you about him probably not deserving what that call could be), it is the business some of us are in - and that is one of the risks we take for the rewards we accept. If you don't want the risk, don't get in the business. That doesn't change how I'd see the guy who was "barreling in like a ferry boat" thru a reef area. Just sayin'.
Peter s/y Time Will Tell (2019 Lagoon 42) peter@syTimeWillTell.com
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: FRANKIE2]
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05/19/2022 08:55 PM
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I was always the bad example, would go direct from NS to the Anchorage and even come in at night. But my boat and local knowledge. But if anyone was following me I would be politically correct. I also only needed 3 feet of water.
Mike
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
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05/20/2022 07:08 AM
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I was always the bad example, would go direct from NS to the Anchorage and even come in at night. But my boat and local knowledge. But if anyone was following me I would be politically correct. I also only needed 3 feet of water. Please don’t mention that on some of the Facebook forums - it will only encourage more bad behavior.
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
[Re: kneafseym]
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05/20/2022 01:46 PM
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Bad example? My first trip down was with JD Leopold (daix). We were sitting at Marina Cay when a boat (you, of course) came screaming around the south side UNDER A SPINNAKER.......rounded off around the reef, doused the chute and coasted to a mooring - y'all 'member that one? I was stone impressed. Had a great dinner with Hartzman that eve, been hooked ever since. Good to see you here Mike!
"Confidentially, I've had these problems with the tides before"
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Re: Grounding off Anegada
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05/20/2022 07:34 PM
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Yes, if you know what you are doing as Mike K, you certainly can take shortcuts. After we sold our charter boat we bought a glacier bay 27 ft power cat to island hop while staying on Virgin Gorda. I would always use Walkers approach and didn't worry about it. After developing a serious neuropathy following some radiation that lasted 2 years during which just getting up from a chair was a difficult procedure, taking out by ourselves was not an option. We have a good friend on island who was with Dive BVI for years, now captain for Little Dix and dove lobster for years. Any way we would grab Rudy on his day off and go somewhere, the two of us and Rudy. He had spent many days lobstering around anegada. So the first time he went with us to Anegada we went in as usual. Coming back he just turned left and we took off through the maze of coral heads at enough speed they looked like a picket fence. . The boat had about an 18 inch or so draft but I did wonder if we might oughta trim up those engines a bit more.  I will admit to some concern but it was no problem..out in the middle somewhere he waved at someone coming fast in the other direction. He said it was one of the Soares. Anyway like many other things "don't try this at home." Unless you are sure you know what you are doing and preferably with one's own boat.
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