On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Jerry F <gfoodma_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > > I don't know how Duane and other So Cal paddlers cross the local shipping > lanes to the islands with such confidence. But I have never heard of an > incident with a ship. > > It's only a matter of time as the sport of kayaking gains more paddlers. The real menace to large ships are windsurfers crossing the shipping channels just inside the Golden Gate. They go back and forth between San Francisco and Sausalito and often just miss being run down by ships. Latitude 38 has had some very interesting photographs. That looks like a large waterway until you look at it from the bridge of a tanker. Then there was the sailboat in New York Harbor who sailed right under my tanker's bow. I was off watch and the six blasts of the ships whistle brought me out on deck to see a 28-foot yacht only ten feet away. Guy and his wife blithely motoring along... with their two kids in the dinghy trailing behind. I suspect they thought that the smaller boat has the right of way. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 10 2009 - 23:06:36 PDT
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