"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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There is always argument with law regardless of whether there is
precedent
or "set law", whatever that means.

Too many times I have seen a "sailboat" with a sail kind of half assed up
but the motor is in the water and you can see the propellor's trail and
these idiots think they are "under sail." These are the people that give
the
rest of you rag merchants a bad name.

Good morning Bert. Yes, you are correct. A person can argue against
the
laws that have been set by precedent. Almost 99.9% of the cases that are
argued against precedent are doomed to failure.

If a sailing vessel has it's sails raised and his propeller is functioning
and driving the boat, then this is a power boat. No argument with that
statement. That sailor actions, as a sailing vessel, would be almost as
stupid as Bill McKee's act of trying to pass a sailing vessel at 25 MPH
and
15 feet distance.

15 feet might be a little close but...

....the wake that a power boat on plane produces is smaller and faster, the
sailboat gets a quick nudge when the wake hits the hull.
....the wake of a power boat pushes running a what most people assume to be
no-wake speed will bounce the sail boat around much harsher.

Which wake do you want to encounter?