[quote=JohnES][quote=klozhald][quote=JohnES]100 or 500 yards doesn't matter, they were pretty close. Bob was bragging about it afterwards at the club, and the guys that shot the video were real concerned. Bob needs to understand all the alarm bells that went off on that boat when they saw him push it...
I guess this is what my daddy meant he said... 'if that boy had a brain he would be lonesome."[/quote]
John, why do you have the need to make this stuff up?
I have never bragged about this crossing.
Why would I brag about something this dumb and dangerous?
That is simply a lie, and a malicious one at that, coupled with your demeaning quotes.
We mis-judged the speed of the tanker, after first thinking we were looking at the stern, not the bow.
I hung that video in FB as a cautionary tale, and yet you immediately made it your soapbox so that you could say rude and untrue things.
Your behavior in a leadership role is very disappointing.
“Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll[/quote]
Bob,
Let me redact the statement about your bragging about this Darwin Candidate maneuver as I was not a witness to this conversation.. However, the second hand information was brought to my attention from a creditable source.... not from someone that is known to make things up... That said, if this was true, and I was there, trust me you had been dressed down right then and there...
For that I apologize.
Secondly, I have to challenge you on your statement about not knowing if it was the bow or the stern of the boat. Are you not looking about your surroundings and aware of what is going on when sailing in the Santa Barbara Channel? [b]Have we not made this point clear in the safety briefing that is scan the horizon? [/b] As a note, my crew picked that boat up when it was halfway down the face of Santa Cruz Island... a good 7 to 10 miles away. Please let me know..... And please explain to me how you mis- judged the movement and the direction of one very large very red boat. As an experienced mariner such as your self had missed this, maybe others are too, and this something that will need to be incorporated and overly stressed into the safety briefing for 2015. Maybe we can prevent these; as you said, dumb and dangerous stunts in the future...
Thirdly, when it comes to safe sailing, keeping people alive, and preserving these races I will make this my soapbox and if I have to use you as the example of what not to do... you can count on this. Don't like it, don't do dumb stuff..
Also Bob, you have my email and cell phone number.... you don't like my method give me a shout. I'll be glad to talk with you as I am also very interested in learning how you misjudged bow for the stern, the direction, and the speed of a very large very red boat that just about everyone else took to port...<!-- editby --><em>Edited by JohnES on Dec 29, 2014 - 04:28 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
