OK..... Racing on our local bay, we are coming down wind under spinnaker. There is a boat moored close to a lay line obviously fishing. We pass atleat 50 feet from one side of the boat and snag 3 lines tipping the lures of them.

My problem is why do they have to cast out so far if they are in a boat...... And how the hell are we to see which direction they go out in and how far until its too late. The lines are near invisable and cast out that far, our deep boards will pick them from a fair distance underwater.

Atferwards we slowed down, said sorry and continued. Next lap we gave them a wave again and appologiesd again. They later chased down our start boat and was very abusive stating that we cost them about $90 AU in lures.