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Tom Potter
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Initially Posted - 02/17/2006 : 21:38:21

Turn up your volume.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7879704144059568419&q=sailboat

1997 250 TR WK (sold)
1984 O'Day 28 (sold)
1979 SISU 22
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 02/18/2006 : 06:16:36

Very cool!

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danandlu
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Response Posted - 02/18/2006 : 07:22:36

Sharkbait indeed.

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bbriner
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Response Posted - 02/18/2006 : 12:20:18

These guys must've been really bored!! A nice gag..

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Chip Hunt
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 10:10:56

Gag, eh? Looks pretty real to me. I would love to see a shark following my boat like that. I have been around the ocean my entire life. I have been sailing the waters of Charleston, SC for eight years now. I have not once seen a live shark in the wild.

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takokichi
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 10:41:19

No gag. He's a regular on Sailing Anarchy and shoots pretty straight. I may be inclinded to believe since we had a shark charge tako kichi last summer. We think he thought the dinghy we were towing was a seal on the surface. Very cool to see. Made very sure to keep the hands inside the boat after that for a while!

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 10:52:45

During BEER Cruise 2004 a couple of us were sailing several miles off the coast of Pensacola, my buddy and his wife were in their Potter 19 about 50 yards on my starboard side, they were taking turns doing what I call "body trolling" off the stern of their Potter. (dragging themselves from a rope in the water)

My wife spotted a fin off my port beam, she thought it was another dolphin, only the fin did not go down!

So I steered port til I got about 10 yards from a 8-10' shark, we sailed next to him for about 5 minutes before he dove. I quickly called my buddy on the Potter and informed him. He decided to quit the body trolling before they caught something!

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 14:54:00

Down on the western Long Island Sound we had a white beluga whale following boats a few years back... He would follow kids on Lasers, and also swam alongside some friends' sailboat for a half hour or so one evening--he seemed to like them touching him from the cockpit. After a few weeks of reports from various boats, we read that he had been found shot to death. Makes me embarrassed of my species.

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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 19:01:39

Sorry guys, I'm with Bill, it's a hoax. Makes for a good story, but it's too convenient, speed too constant, very unshark like.

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bbriner
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 19:48:25

I figured it was a gag because (a) the fin stays the same distance from the boat the entire time (b) the fin doesn't move at all from side to side, and (c) you can see a hard line trailing off the pulpit (look close). The guys face at the end looks a little 'staged' too. Overall, good job guys!

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takokichi
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 21:36:53

You can think it a gag if you must - it happens pretty frequently, though, so I have no trouble believing it could be true.

We had a Beluga here two summers ago. He was very social and hung around anchorages where people would play in their dinghies. Theory was he thought they were Beluga too. I had two run ins. The second time he came up to the boat and I got in Zodiac and cast off. He pushed Zodiac around for a few minutes. The first I was in the water scrubbing the bottom and he came to check things out. I went straight up over the rail! Can't reproduce the maneuver but I wanted OUT of the water. He's friendly but he's big for a playmate. He was found on a beach that winter. The sailing community here mourned like we'd lost a sailor.

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takokichi
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Response Posted - 02/23/2006 : 21:38:23

Uh - watch the vid again. The distance from the boat to the putative shark changes - and you can see his tail...

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Chip Hunt
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Response Posted - 02/24/2006 : 10:14:58

Not only can you see the tail, you can see it moving from side to side as it keeps pace with the boat. How do you fake that? I'd bet money that the vid is genuine.

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