ubject: Ferry Speeds
From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 11/19/2003 17:31 Pacific Standard Time
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Wrong! Courtesy is not even mentioned in the COLREGS.
Courtesy can only legally be abided if courtesy does not
make one violate any of the Rules. The Rules tell
me I MUST hold course and speed while sailing
in a crossing situation with a ferry (not in a narrow channel)
and they tell a ferry that as a motor vessel she must give
way to a sailboat. The only situation where this does not
apply is in narrow channels or if the sailboat is overtaking
the ferry.
S.Simon
Typically, your lack of in depth knowledge of the Rules, precludes you from
understanding and mentioning VTS schemes and how they would/could effect your
actions.
Also, quite typically, you are unable to understand, and apply any form of
courtesy, to any vessel, except your own .... a prime indication of your total
lack of knowledge and experience, underway, when encountering vessel traffic,
which may indicate a need for you to employ "good seamanship", etc.
As per usual, Simpleton, you are showing yourself to be a "phony troll
wannabe".
Shen