And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Boat digs in it's bow, capsizes in the Jupiter Inlet, Florida
It's a pitchpole moment. It's the quadratic of sailing, sail/power, sea and angle off the bow. Experience teaches. It's a teaching moment when the whole bow buries itself and you go flying ass over mast.
I have to say that it is a maybe, one would have to be driving the boat to know. The operator is steering, playing the throttle, watching the waves in front, the waves behind and the rocks on the side and they all contribute to how the boat will react. Sometime it is a operators fault and at other times it is just the way that the water and waves work.
I live in Jupiter and have seen all kinds of stuff happen in that inlet. We watched a boat take on water from behind. Everyone was yelling and waving at the people, to no avail. They sunk. It is treacherous sometimes.
The sea is a harsh mistress.
ReplyDeleteHe must've had a ton of fish on board....
ReplyDeleteIt's a pitchpole moment. It's the quadratic of sailing, sail/power, sea and angle off the bow. Experience teaches. It's a teaching moment when the whole bow buries itself and you go flying ass over mast.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, siri moment, you only do it once. Once is enough
ReplyDeleteI'm not a boater. What if anything did he do wrong? Could this have been avoided?
ReplyDeleteI have to say that it is a maybe, one would have to be driving the boat to know.
DeleteThe operator is steering, playing the throttle, watching the waves in front, the waves behind and the rocks on the side and they all contribute to how the boat will react.
Sometime it is a operators fault and at other times it is just the way that the water and waves work.
I live in Jupiter and have seen all kinds of stuff happen in that inlet. We watched a boat take on water from behind. Everyone was yelling and waving at the people, to no avail. They sunk. It is treacherous sometimes.
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