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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
... That didn't work out so well a few years ago ...
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Yes, another example of why you should carry a strong flashlight. Although nothing can completely protect you from Captain Bonehead when they want to be stupid.
One night by the Bear Island Mail dock, I encounterred a boat that was having electrical difficulties and they asked me to escort them across to the marina by Long Island Bridge. I gave the skipper an "electric flare" to wave. For a variety of reasons, we decided he should lead off and I was about 150 feet behind and we were moving about 10mph.
A large (or at least loud) speed boat came at us from port and looked like he was going to pass just in front of me. I started to speed up to "cover" the other boat but Captain Bonehead hit the throttles some more and I didn't want to 'push' him into the dark boat (who was waving the electric torch like crazy) so I dropped back to open the distance. I was also shining my small spot-light at the other boat, I don't know if that made any difference but C/B cleared my bow by just about 50 feet.
If I have to do this again I'll prep my flare-launcher. I'm not promising which direction to point it buy I'm hopeful C/B will wake up to that!