Navigating the Rappahannock is mostly a piece of (crab) cake except some days there is a different breed of navigator around.... preparing for the Hoskins Creek dredging suck means positioning loads of equipment barges on a budget, and Hoss is on a tight schedule! Heading back down river, this tug came straight at us at top speed with no hint of having seen us... so we took evading action - with Tardis in tow - and rolled through the huge swell that Hoss churned up. Photographic evidence suggests there was a shape in the wheelhouse but was he dozing? Maybe two and half red balls on the mast would be appropriate - 'only partially under command'.
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