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Originally Posted by BrunoSR
Last Saturday morning around 9:30 we were just about at the no wake buoy right off Pine Island. We were doing about 3 to 4 miles per hour at this point and we see this center console coming around the North East side of Bear Island, on plane. He cuts across our bow, maybe 100 yards or so and then turns towards us and slows down and then stops. We go by him and he's staring at me like I have two heads and I am staring at him like what the F was that??? He yells PORT to PORT A--hole. I’m like really, you needed to cross over 800 yards of open entrance between Bear and Pine just to pass me, Port to Port???? Really??
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Chapman's Piloting and Seamanship covers this.
Type "Meeting" in the search line and look for page 157.
I often pass Stbd to Stbd when there is adequate clearance as noted in the book.
Did this start as a meeting situation or was he first crossing from your port?
No matter how egregious I think another boater's rule breaking appears to be, I back off. No doubt I have given others cause for concern in my boating career.
https://books.google.com/books/about...d=gOLEhDB0vzgC