On Dec 19, 2:09*pm, Gene wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:41:45 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Dec 19, 12:15*pm, Gene wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:55:36 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Watch as Tom meets a unsuspecting Herring....blasting along in a
clappped-out Wellcraft, looking the other way....what else..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvXGodVxeR4

Clearly, the USCG was 98% at fault in that collision. I wonder what
those nitwits didn't get about COLREGS Rules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and
8?????? *Rules 15 and 16 are all that one would need for conviction in
a court of law.

Rule 15 -- Crossing Situation

* * When two power driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk
of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side
shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case
admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.

Rule 16 -- Action by Give-way Vessel

* * Every vessel which is directed to keep out of the way of another
vessel shall, so far as possible, take early and substantial action to
keep well clear.

Incredible!
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Slammer doesn't really care about cause and affect. He just wants to
be........slammer.

Maybe, but he did point out a real situation..... one that a lot of
people might mis-interpret.

While it is true that the crew of the stand-on vessel that was
capsized failed to maintain an adequate watch.

The coasties in the give-way vessel were guilty of violating about
every rule in the book!

"I didn't see him" would not, in the instance of the stand-on vessel,
be much of a weak position. The give-way vessel was required, by law,
to never put itself in a position of possible collision.

A review of the rules is never a bad idea.....http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknow...g/colregs.html
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I agree, rules are rules. There is also, in litigation and such a
thing called Last Clear Chance for auto accidents. I'd bet the same
for watercraft. It basically says that if you have a chance to avoid
an accident, whether it's your fault or the other persons, you must
take that action. Like if we were side by side on an interstate, you
came over in my lane, there was nothing on the other side of me to
prevent me from moving over to avoid the accident, and I didn't do it
just because you were in the wrong.