Crash

Last week in San Diego, a 33 foot US Coast Guard hit a 26 foot Sea Ray with an entire family aboard, killing an 8 year old boy and injuring others. The boat was travelling at an estimated 30-40 knots in the dark when it hit. Sucks.

From Sailing Anarchy... there's not much for me to add because I could not agree more.
"Despite our appreciation and respect for the Coast Guard, you'd have to be blind not to notice a general change in the attitudes of the coasties assigned to the kind of routine harbor duty that this group was apparently on. The idiotic War on Drugs combined with Homeland Security paranoia has put an arrogant, paramilitary face on many of these guys, and this extends to the way some of them roar around protected waterways at unsafe speeds as they pursue yet another boater without enough life jackets aboard.

Accidents happen, but the level of negligence required for a radar and searchlight-equipped CG vessel to crash into an unmoving boat at 30+ knots on a calm night is startling. Barring the discovery that the DaWeese's boat was using some kind of cloaking device, the skipper of that 33 should lose a lot more than his position."