Ellen MacArthur wrote:
OK ya'll, here's another sailing question. I'll try to make it very clear. Maybe I won't
get so many complaints this time. (sighing as she decides not to hold her breath...)
I'm sailing my Tangerine (17' 6" on deck). It has no motor. I'm sailing along minding my
own business. It's a nice day and hardly any other boats on the Bay. There's no current
because it's high tide. Off to my left I see a big sport fisherman boat heading my way.
It looks like he's on course to run right into me about 45 degrees forward of my beam.
He's not fishing. He's just motoring along on plane. He's closer than 1/4 mile. I think
everybody will agree I'm the stand on boat. But under the colreg rules is this:
a) a meeting situation
b) a crossing situation
c) an overtaking situation
I'll get even on this one. You've been mean to me so far, just mean. What goes around
comes around. Remember that. Maybe you won't be so mean.

Cheers,
Ellen

d. None of the above

A power driven vessel shall keep out of the way of a sailing vessel

Ding! Right answer.

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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
OK ya'll, here's another sailing question. I'll try to make it very
clear. Maybe I won't
get so many complaints this time. (sighing as she decides not to hold her
breath...)
I'm sailing my Tangerine (17' 6" on deck). It has no motor. I'm
sailing along minding my
own business. It's a nice day and hardly any other boats on the Bay.
There's no current
because it's high tide. Off to my left I see a big sport fisherman boat
heading my way.
It looks like he's on course to run right into me about 45 degrees
forward of my beam.
He's not fishing. He's just motoring along on plane. He's closer than 1/4
mile. I think
everybody will agree I'm the stand on boat. But under the colreg rules is
this:
a) a meeting situation
b) a crossing situation
c) an overtaking situation
I'll get even on this one. You've been mean to me so far, just mean.
What goes around
comes around. Remember that. Maybe you won't be so mean.

Cheers,
Ellen

d. None of the above

A power driven vessel shall keep out of the way of a sailing vessel

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:13:14 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Ding! Right answer.

Nope. Don't know enough. Always reverts to "least manueverable
vessel"



Frank

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:13:14 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Ding! Right answer.

Nope. Don't know enough. Always reverts to "least manueverable
vessel"



Frank
That explains why I always see sport fishermen not giving way to
sailboats. (Really - this is by far the most common flagrant violation
I see.) They just assume the sailboat is more maneuverable.

So Frank, what additional information do you think is needed?

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:01:44 -0400, Jeff wrote:

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:13:14 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Ding! Right answer.

Nope. Don't know enough. Always reverts to "least manueverable
vessel"



Frank
That explains why I always see sport fishermen not giving way to
sailboats. (Really - this is by far the most common flagrant violation
I see.) They just assume the sailboat is more maneuverable.




So Frank, what additional information do you think is needed?

The statement, "neither vessel is channel bound"

In the middle of the bay???

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"Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:01:44 -0400, Jeff wrote:

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:13:14 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Ding! Right answer.

Nope. Don't know enough. Always reverts to "least manueverable
vessel"



Frank
That explains why I always see sport fishermen not giving way to
sailboats. (Really - this is by far the most common flagrant violation
I see.) They just assume the sailboat is more maneuverable.




So Frank, what additional information do you think is needed?

The statement, "neither vessel is channel bound"

Capt. JG wrote:
In the middle of the bay???

Yes, that was my first thought, but there are lots of wide open bays
with a narrow channel down the middle. Galveston comes to mind.

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:38:40 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

In the middle of the bay???


The Mississippi Sound is 12-15 miles wide and it has about four north
south channels and an east west channel down the middle. St Joe's Bay
is probably about six miles wide at the widest point and it has a
channel running diagonally from the point to Port St. Joe and another
going the length of the bay.

Many fishing boats that ordinarily would leave the channel are using
it in the sound post Katrina to avoid any obstructions that have not
been cleared, marked or noted in notices to mariners.

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".

Frank

One is a power boat, one is a sailboat. Given the facts presented, the power
boat must give way. There's no discussion of depth, hazards, etc.

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"Frank Boettcher" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:13:14 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Ding! Right answer.

Nope. Don't know enough. Always reverts to "least manueverable
vessel"



Frank

Capt. JG wrote:
Ding! Right answer.

yelp, I was thinking Motor sailing :0)

Joe



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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
OK ya'll, here's another sailing question. I'll try to make it very
clear. Maybe I won't
get so many complaints this time. (sighing as she decides not to hold her
breath...)
I'm sailing my Tangerine (17' 6" on deck). It has no motor. I'm
sailing along minding my
own business. It's a nice day and hardly any other boats on the Bay.
There's no current
because it's high tide. Off to my left I see a big sport fisherman boat
heading my way.
It looks like he's on course to run right into me about 45 degrees
forward of my beam.
He's not fishing. He's just motoring along on plane. He's closer than 1/4
mile. I think
everybody will agree I'm the stand on boat. But under the colreg rules is
this:
a) a meeting situation
b) a crossing situation
c) an overtaking situation
I'll get even on this one. You've been mean to me so far, just mean.
What goes around
comes around. Remember that. Maybe you won't be so mean.

Cheers,
Ellen

d. None of the above

A power driven vessel shall keep out of the way of a sailing vessel