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08-05-2015 08:35 AM
Last edited by Ratickle; 08-06-2015 at 09:04 AM.
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08-05-2015 09:42 AM
I was about 100 ft. away Bob. nobody aboard my boat could believe why so many boats were anchored, tiedup/rafted in the middle of a commercial navigation channel. The skipper of the Spirit showed great restraint in how he moved past these yahoos. Of course the fools were blaming the Portland Spirit. My friends in the CG were amazed that as soon as they cleared a path, they would throw their anchors back in. I can't believe that these idiots passed a boaters test.
Last edited by Ratickle; 08-06-2015 at 09:06 AM.
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08-06-2015 09:10 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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08-06-2015 09:13 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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08-06-2015 12:03 PM
Wow. Recreational mariners in Portland SUCK. You would think with a small amount of actual shipping that goes on there, people would be a little more prudent about sharing a navigational channel.
It's like somebody dropped the Queen Mary in the channel at Lake Havasu and all those non-mariner "boaters" reacted to it with anger.
It's called a channel, idiots.
Why anyone who anchored in a channel creating a navigation hazard and fraudulently applied for a CG permit would question the credentials of the skipper of the Portland Spirit, I have no idea.
This would be like me stopping my boat in front of a lake freighter in the CHANNEL and expecting it to "go around."
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08-07-2015 10:30 AMAlmost makes me ashamed to say I'm a boater who comes from Portland.
I guess it's a good thing there wasn't a tug and barge coming through the commercial channel!!Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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08-07-2015 11:26 AM
Exactly Paul and John. I kept thinking what if a tug and barge need to come through. They would need a fair amount of headway to maintain steerage.
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08-07-2015 12:43 PM
Idiot woman talking:
"They didn't tell us we needed a permit to anchor here."
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Idiot woman talking:
"There are thousands of boats here."
No, there aren't.
Idiot woman talking:
"The Portland Spirit almost took out half of our boats."
With your estimate of "thousands" of boats, "almost" taking out at least 500 of them seems unlikely at the slow, careful pace of the professional captain.
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