Saturday, 10 March 2007

Near miss

Went out for about four hours today (two at anchor having dinner at mount edgecombe). It's the second time we've left this new spot in the marina. As it's quite narrow we can't spin around, and as it's a dead end we have to reverse out. With the wind & tide pushing us onto the pontoon, my springing technique didn't spring us out far enough and when we started backwards we started to drift onto the boat that had been behind us. Mayuri gave us a little push and the boats didn't make contact. Then we skimmed past inches away from the next boat (all 21m of brand new princess luxury motor boat) and just began making steerage way as we got into open water. Overtook our first boat in the sound and went through the bridge with sails up & 20kts!