So... we returned today from 12 days of cruising. As we were coming up on Hampton Roads (where Norfolk Naval Base is), a Coast Guard cutter was broadcasting that a Naval warship was in the vicinity of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and all vessels needed to reduce speed to minimum steerage within 500 yards and not to enter within 100 yards and they would use force, including deadly force, to enforce this rule....
I dropped speed... It was the USS Enterprise... a nuclear carrier...
I was doing 6 knots as I went on by (I am sure they had some sort of gun pointed at me):
They had a really cool dinghy garage:
We pass them... and the radio on 16 is full of chatter... and my wife is down below on the back of the boat sunning herself... and a few minutes later (I paraphrase this) the CG cutter gets on with a small sailboat.. tells the sailboat they are on a collision course and they need to get out of the way. The sailboat then proceeds to argue that they have the right-of-way as they are under sail and not power. My wife yells up (I thought she was asleep) "ARE THEY JUST STUPID?!?!"
I was sorta wishing for some gunfire... the sailboat moved...
If they had read Chapmans, they would have known that any boat with a nuclear reactor has the right-of-way.
I dropped speed... It was the USS Enterprise... a nuclear carrier...
I was doing 6 knots as I went on by (I am sure they had some sort of gun pointed at me):
They had a really cool dinghy garage:
We pass them... and the radio on 16 is full of chatter... and my wife is down below on the back of the boat sunning herself... and a few minutes later (I paraphrase this) the CG cutter gets on with a small sailboat.. tells the sailboat they are on a collision course and they need to get out of the way. The sailboat then proceeds to argue that they have the right-of-way as they are under sail and not power. My wife yells up (I thought she was asleep) "ARE THEY JUST STUPID?!?!"
I was sorta wishing for some gunfire... the sailboat moved...
If they had read Chapmans, they would have known that any boat with a nuclear reactor has the right-of-way.
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