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To: PIF
Lose power, even for a second, means losing steering, loss of steering means the rudder flops

Sooooooo, drop anchor?? Did they try that?

358 posted on 03/26/2024 4:27:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Its not a Tupperware day boat, its 95,000 tons and takes miles to stop. Besides, such a maneuver at 12 kts on a ladened piece of plastic day boat would have had the same effect of dragging the boat/ship around into the bridge, if it did not rip the whole anchor mechanism right off the boat ... anchors are not breaks!


384 posted on 03/26/2024 4:42:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: central_va

If you don’t have power, can you even drop an anchor? I think they are dropped by an electric motor.


415 posted on 03/26/2024 5:00:19 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance))
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