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Rattlesnake Gal · 08-20-2007, 09:34 AM

When I first spotted her boat heading our way, my thought was she was heading toward the island to get shelter from the wind and waves as many boaters do on choppy, windy days like yesterday. When her intentions became apparent we had little time, if at all, to do anything as she was heading toward us so fast. We were traveling at headway speed on a leisurely cruise enjoying the sights of Rattlesnake Island and that was certainly obvious from her vantage point.

As you might imagine, over the years we have yielded to countless boats as we were trying to get to our dock, never once giving thought to the fact that we were the stand-on boat. We call it common courtesy.

My snapping pictures definitely fueled this situation and given the same scenario, I would take them again. I’m not sure that I would put both arms in the air and call that they were within 150’ of us though. I hope that point would be obvious.

08-20-2007, 09:34 AM	#17
Rattlesnake Gal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Central NH Posts: 5,252 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,451 Thanked 1,349 Times in 475 Posts	Common Courtesy When I first spotted her boat heading our way, my thought was she was heading toward the island to get shelter from the wind and waves as many boaters do on choppy, windy days like yesterday. When her intentions became apparent we had little time, if at all, to do anything as she was heading toward us so fast. We were traveling at headway speed on a leisurely cruise enjoying the sights of Rattlesnake Island and that was certainly obvious from her vantage point. As you might imagine, over the years we have yielded to countless boats as we were trying to get to our dock, never once giving thought to the fact that we were the stand-on boat. We call it common courtesy. My snapping pictures definitely fueled this situation and given the same scenario, I would take them again. I’m not sure that I would put both arms in the air and call that they were within 150’ of us though. I hope that point would be obvious.