View Single Post
  #11   Report Post  
posted to rec.boats.cruising
Capt. JG Capt. JG is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jul 2006
Posts: 7,757
Default No attempt to avoid collision

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
Exactly. As has been pointed out here endlessly, being the stand on
vessel doesn't make you blameless if you take no action to avoid the
collision. Rules aside, the CG boat would have gotten to its mission
objective a lot sooner if it had followed the full rules of the road
instead of just the one governing the passing situation.

--
Roger Long


I looked at the vid again, and I'm even more shocked by what happened. It
was pretty clear that the people on the PB weren't paying attention even in
the fuzzy vid, yet on the CG boat came. It's really disturbing to think that
they would have so little regard for life and limb, given the CG's mission.
It was totally avoidable. They could have done their mission, and then cited
the PB for not keeping a proper watch or whatever.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com