Frank you would be CBD or RAM

Constrained by Draft or Restricted in Ability to Manuever.

CBD is three Red light Vertically. RAM is R over W or R.

If you wanted to excercise that point you should probably
show the day shapes.

Another option is the Mossberg 12 gu Pump Shotgun loaded
with Tracer Rounds.


"Scotty" wrote

"Frank Boettcher" wrote

Jeff wrote:

Frank Boettcher wrote:
...

I personnally have tacked up Gulfport small craft
channel (at one
point about 40' across), with a dead engine in a boat
drawing 5' and
had teenagers on sunfish screaming starboard at me.
They might need
to go back to the sailing school and learn the meaning
of "least
manueverable".

You invoked that before but didn't quite explain. Did
you mean that
the sport fisherman has right of way because its less
maneuverable?


Truth be known, I don't think I have ever read it. It was
explained
to me in a piloting course I took many years ago in the
context that
sailing vessels don't automatically have right of way over
power
boats.

And it may always be determined after the fact, i.e. in
the courts if
there is an incident.

Concept is simple. In the example above, my channel bound
boat
tacking to windward in a narrow channel always has the
right of way
over a sunfish that is not channel bound, regardless of
what tack I'm
on. Because I am " least manueverable" given the narrow
amount of
room I have to manuever.


By channel bound, are you saying it's a RAM?

If you are sailing and on intersection with a supertanker
that
requires miles to stop or change course, even if not
channel bound,
least manueverable is the rule.

If you are sailing and approaching a barge train of two or
three coal
barges heading for the power plant, they will always be
considered
"least manueverable" and have right of way.