Re: [Paddlewise] Again with the tankers! - speeds?

What is the typical travel speed for these tankers?  I
know speeds are posted on some charts, but they don't
necessarily follow the posted limits.

--- James Farrelly <jfarrelly5_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> Went out fossil hunting on the Savannah again
> Saturday.  The  
> container ship New York Express expressed its
> displeasure with me  
> being next to the channel.  Two other container
> ships had gone down  
> river while I was digging with no ill effects for
> me. But those ships  
> were empty and rode high in the water.  The New York
> Express was full  
> and low.  She passed me just as I had gotten back
> into my kayak and  
> was cruising about 25 feet from shore well outside
> the channel.
> 
> I heard a sudden rushing sound and turned to see a
> five foot wall of  
> muddy water slamming into the bank where I had been
> about a minute  
> earlier.  I leaned hard to turn away from what
> looked like a tidal  
> bore gone crazy.  Surfing, jinking and bracing over
> that mess was  
> exciting yet it was spooky to think I could have
> just as easily still  
> been on the bank with my head down concentrating on
> my digging.  If I  


 
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