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Planet Earth. And I am not a sailboater, so know I do not have the
"right of way" over large ships.

Mebbe, mebbe not.

otn


Who has "right of way"?


Technically, the term "right of way" is wrong (exception noted), but to
be
honest, who is "stand on" and who is "give way" depends on the
circumstances.
EG Then again, if I was on a ship and you were buzzing around me on a
PWC
......... depends on the circumstances...............

Yeah - what your minimum turning radius on full power was.....

PDW

Yup, you attack a jetski, try to run it over or point a gun at it and
someone has video. Say goodby to your boat, your house, your investments.


Video on a jetski? Fat chance, and the video we get will be of a
mosquito running into our bow eye, and then dissapearing below the
waves. The tape will probably follow.

A sail boat cannot catch or get away from a jetski, and a dog would
do better to not catch a car.

Harrassment is harrassment. Why do you think we have a requirement
for boat licenses, now?

PWCs is why, and stupid PWC drivers.

Old sailors know how to stay away from tankers, mostley. How do you
think they got old? Tankers don't bother reporting smashed
sailboats, or PWCs, even if they do notice. Got the picture?

As Red Green says "Keep your stick on the ice." As I say, "Don't
tug on Superman's cape, and don't mess around with Jim."

Your widow will have to explain your stupidity to substantiate and
justify her claim for your rightfully lost income. My insurance will
probably cover it. Go ahead, be an ass hole.

Don't, for heavan's sake, even consider taking your smart pills. I
tell you this in the hope you will stubbornly and stupidly disobey
me, for your own good. We all love you, honest.

If you run between a sailboat and a side channel, the sailboat has
the right to turn from the main to the side channel, when and how
appropriate, considering currents and shallows and winds local to
the sailboat, of which you are probably completely unaware, and you
better keep out of the way, well clear overtaking, auxiliary engine
charging batteries or not. The wind steers a sailboat, and if you
can't undersand that, you will wind up in the Darwin Award list,
along with all the other mental midgets. Food for sea worms, Billy.
Right, or just dead right, it probably won't matter much to me.

An auxiliary engine in a sail boat cannot propel or control the boat
in the same way as do the sails in a wind. Engine on idle and
neutral, charging a radio battery, or running full blast foreward to
assist navigating a boat in the teeth of a gust, the sailor is
struggling with the wind, stealing a free ride for pleasure, and you
are not allowed to choose to try to slide by close and fast,
unconcious in the hope that nothing untoward will happen. A
sailboat's auxiliary engine may have 15 HP, but the wind has
thousands of wild horesepower available. As Captain of your vessel,
you are expected to undertand the realities of maritime navigation,
deep or shallow, sail and power, flying fish, whale, deadhead or
pedestrian swimmer / survivor. It is your responsibility to
undertand and act appropriately to avoid a collision if at all
possible, right or wrong, now and well in advance. The Logic Of The
Universe will prevail. Disobey Poseidon and die. Die anyway.

Dead or alive, sailboats have the right to essentially ignore most
pleasure power boats. Most of us would never purpously fly into
cumulus granitus, staute or mobile, afloat or sunk. Try it before
you decry it.

Oh, I give up. Common sense isn't, and as a Samurai up against the
impossible, for relief, I invoke Godwin's law. You are a nazi
asshole, you are, and an insistant and stubborn, stupid, bullet
headed one, to boot. I quit. I didn't care, anyway. What's one more
or less PWC?

Walk the plank. Kiss the gunner's mate. Suck the ocean. Feed the
fish. Marry Davey Jones. Say "Goodbye, Yank." H'Ri-Kiri would be
such a relief, please try it.

But at least it was on topic! Buy me a saki, you foreign devil, you;-)

NI!

Terry K