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Originally Posted by Misty Blue
"...Please understand that the 150 foot rule includes the tube..."
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Yesterday, hoping for the usual breeze that arrives about 8AM, I took off in my usual sailboat about 7:30. A few other usual ski-boats were taking advantage of the particularly-calm morning waters.
Towing a slalom skier, a ski-boat approached whose operator didn't appear to see my sailboat!
Because of the scattered clouds at that moment, my PED (powerboat-excluder-device) couldn't help me.
At about 400-feet away, he veered slightly from his collision path—passing me about 100' away.
And,
NO...I didn't wave.
What neither of us realized, was that all of this was news to the skier!
The skier took his "normal" path, and scant seconds later, the skier and I could have counted each other's dental fillings!
The skier later dropped/fell about ˝-mile away—the delay causing me to lose track of the culprit
among the several ski-boats out there.