"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in
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| BTW, NUC is a condition that implies other should avoid
hitting you.
| It does not absolve you of responsibility. Consider
this
| situation: a 25 foot sloop crosses a major shipping lane
at night and
| becomes becalmed in front of an oncoming tanker. They
try to start
| the outboard and break the throttle. The tanker runs
aground to avoid
| collision. Who is at fault?

A shipping lane doesn't give a ship any extra rights.
(or did you mean a
narrow channel?) The tanker needs to alter course so it
won't hit the sailboat
and since it's also N.U.C. it goes double. If the tanker
ran aground, it's his
own fault.


The courts don't agree with you.

SBV