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.

Jeff wrote:
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.

Would taht channel be International Water, though?

katy wrote:
Jeff wrote:
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.

Would taht channel be International Water, though?
No, I think Galveston Bay is all Inland, but this question didn't
specify Intl.

Since she was not specific, I used that (lack of) information to make my
judgement.

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"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..
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

Frank Boettcher wrote:
....

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

OK, I have to ask. What is the rule of "Least Maneuverable"? Is this
some special local rule down in the Gulf? I scanned the Colregs and
it doesn't show up there.

You invoked that before but didn't quite explain. Did you mean that
the sport fisherman has right of way because its less maneuverable?