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![]() Comments interspersed. Simple Simon wrote: Listening to the fog signal most certainly may give you information on how to maneuver. For example, you are operating a motor boat. You hear dead ahead of you one prolonged blast/ two short blasts. You slow down some more. Two minutes you hear the same signal but now it's bearing approx 350 degrees. Two minutes later you hear it bearing approx 340 degrees. With a fog signal, it would be very hard to locate the bearing of the signal this closely .... something you still fail to understand. It will take a good deal of time, just using the sound, to get an actual feel for direction of movement of the other vessel, unless they are traveling at a good rate of speed, and even then it will take awhile .... hence the reason for slowing to bare steerage or stopping. You don't have to assume, Never Assume. you know the vessel has crossed your path but and unless it is very very long or is a towboat with a very very long hawser that it would be you may be clear. You assume the worst case scenario that it is a towboat with a hawser a quarter mile long so you slow down even more and turn 30 degrees to starboard. I would consider 30 degrees in zero visibility, too little..... better to stop and let them clear astern or at least abaft the beam. Now, tell me you aren't the give way vessel. Course you are and so is the other guy. There is NO stand-on status in fog nor pecking order, nor one vessel which must consider itself the sole "giveway" vessel, based on sound signals. ALL vessels are required to maneuver in the same way, to the extent possible for their condition, if at all. IOW you on your sailboat, must reduce speed to that necessary to keep yourself on course, or stop and at any rate navigate with extreme caution, until the danger has passed ... no special treatment .....if you're NUC, you sit there and pray. S.Simon - a Captain who's unfamiliar with the intricacies of the Rules otn |
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