This guy obviously read Chapmans...

Four Suns

Four Suns

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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...

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I was doing 6 knots as I went on by (I am sure they had some sort of gun pointed at me):

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They had a really cool dinghy garage:

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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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Way cool. See what us lake boaters are missing? No coast guard. No carriers. Just lake cops and rednecks.

We do have the same sailors though it seems...
 
Those are cool pics.

Blowboaters never remember the "In general" portion of the statement "In general, a sailing vessel has the right of way over a power vessel". They forget that it doesn't apply when they are overtaking power boats or vessels engaged in fishing or otherwise limited in maneuverability like say a 1000 foot aircraft carrier.
 
Four Suns said:
...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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:smt043:smt043

Great shots, Gary.
 
Here's the gun pointed at me...

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I have some other shots showing that guy pointing his gun at other things as well... Look at the earlier shot in my first post and you'll see the barrel...
 
Gary, you might should have been concerned about the double-globe antenna right under the chain gun that seems to have also been pointed at you. That's the illuminator for the Sea Sparrow missile system; one of those would be a lot harder to dodge than bullets. The Navy once made a mistake with one of them and blew up the bridge of a Turkish destroyer.
 
Can I press charges for "brandishing a firearm"?

Obviously the sailboat dude didn't have an issue... He'll probably write Pelosi....
 
Four Suns said:
... It was the USS Enterprise... a nuclear carrier...
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I think the Enterprise was the first nuclear carrier ever, right?

Sailboaters are just snobbish...I remember one asking me the right of way while he was under power and he had no sails on :smt021
 
Maybe you should be worried abut the guys in the Black Suburbans showing up at your house to confiscate your boat, cameras, and computers.:grin:
 
A few weeks ago I met an ex navy gunner that was assigned to a support vessel that cruised with one of the nuclear air craft carriers. I asked what the top speed was for the air craft carrier. He indicated that it was north of 50 knots, with the main limitation being that the forward bulkhead could not handle the pressure of going faster.

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Four Suns said:
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?!?!"
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I'm so sick of all the boaters on the water that don't even understand the general concepts of "stand-on" vessel and "give-way" vessel.

I was coming back from Catalina 2 weekends ago and had no less than 3 vessels off my Port come speeding right across my path. If I had not altered course and throttled back to go astern of them, there would have been a broadside collision to my vessel...and this is in calm seas with 6+ miles of visibility.
 
In Gary's first few pics, what does the white CG boat do? Is there another one on the stbd side?
 
Gary,
Are you sure that is a gun? In that last pic it looks like the coin operated binoculars you find on top of the Empire State Building. Did you say your wife was laying on the deck sunbathing...........????:grin:
Todd
 
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