Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:28:27 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:


As soon as you put the
engine in gear, you uniformed crew smartly hoists the day shape cone up the
forestay.


Carrying all of this to its silly extreme, you now blithely motorsail
along with your cone up until some awkward right-of-way situation
arises, at which point you strike your cone and put your engine in
neutral to reassert your rights.

That's why the rules say that you become a powerboat when your engine
is on, not just when your engine is in gear. Otherwise you could just
shift into neutral whenever it was convenient.



Convenient to what?

CAUSE a collision?