"otnmbrd" wrote in message ink.net...
ROFL I've enjoyed watching you reword your responses to this over time,
in a vain attempt to qualify your statement.
However, for those of us who have run in thick fog, where you never see
the other guy no matter how close you get, and keeping the issue to that
simple premise .... while you are in fog, there is NO pecking order
regarding "stand-on" "giveway".....what it's all about.
Now, to play your game, does this signal give a hint as to the fact you
may not be dealing with a simple powerdriven vessel? Of course. But,
does it in any way tell you how you may have to maneuver? No....
insufficient information, and even YOU know one must not make decisions
based on "scanty" information.

Listening to the fog signal most certainly may give you information
on how to maneuver. For example, you are operating a motor boat.
You hear dead ahead of you one prolonged blast/ two short blasts.
You slow down some more. Two minutes you hear the same signal
but now it's bearing approx 350 degrees. Two minutes later you hear it
bearing approx 340 degrees. You don't have to assume, you know
the vessel has crossed your path but and unless it is very very long or
is a towboat with a very very long hawser that it would be you may
be clear. You assume the worst case scenario that it is a towboat
with a hawser a quarter mile long so you slow down even more and
turn 30 degrees to starboard.

Now, tell me you aren't the give way vessel.

S.Simon - a Captain who's familiar with the intricacies of the Rules