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Old 11-04-2009, 10:45 PM   #1
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Traffic Fail

Here's the Trinity "Blind Date" pulling out into the southbound traffic as the FLIB broke up Tuesday morning...scary.

We just passed her as she saw a gap (probably 200 yards) and decided to go for it! Don't know what the result was as we continued on our merry way, but as there was a flood tide, she wound up facing north (maybe intentionally?) into all the southbound/outbound yachts leaving.

I'm sure there was some cursing going on as we were monitoring both 16 and 09 and didn't hear any securite from her nor any whistles...

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In this last photo, you can just see "Touch" sneaking in to pass "Blind Date's" STBD (blind?) side...
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Old 11-05-2009, 08:37 AM   #2
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I saw several yachts turn north. They then hooked up with a towboat that dragged thm backwards to a wide area for them to spin around. Perhaps the current had an influence on some of these bows. the current was running well outbound at about 10:00 AM and saw one get a bit out of control while making room for the barge/crane to go by and almost hit a daymarker (fenders were at the ready thanks to a fast moving crew). Otherwise didn't see any issues outside Bahia Mar.
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Old 11-05-2009, 01:04 PM   #3
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Perhaps Blind Date, at one hundred and sixtyone feet, employed the tonnage rule a/k/a "Might is right".
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