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I agree no sailboat with the ability to power into the harbor in today's harbors should be coming in under sail, sails should come down at the outside channel markers, but many (any boat I raced) had no power and therefore should be given right of way. Nebe as one who raced smaller boats in the inner harbors in my teens, id agree with ample wind some can be quick and nimble and if not in a race could give way. Knowing how I was in my teens and still am today, my competitive spirit wouldn't allow me to give up on a race, unless some A-hole with too much power and the will to use it is about to run me downtown . You mean to tell me avoiding an occasional sailboat is that big a deal? I've personally had far more trouble and conflicts with pleasure boaters running over my lines, lobsterman threatening to do you harm because you are setting up a drift too close to their gear, or getting an earful from some captain Bly who thinks because he has paying clients on board I have no right fishing his reef. The 30 minutes in 20 years I might have lost by giving way to dozens of guys under sail is nothing.
I would absolutely love to own some of the POS as some like to call them, love the ocean but under sail without the noise of the outboards is something special.
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