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When a woman puts a man in his place.....
A woman puts a man in his place. What does the man do most of the time? He acts like
it didn't happen. He ignores it. He hides. He tucks tail. Makes himself scarce..... I see it all the time. Self-proclaimed experts who can't even make their own case. Afraid to admit they don't know it all. Is that why certain *men* here ignore my questions? Little dumb blonde Ellen makes them look impotent? Where's Jeff? He knows the rules better than anybody here. He'd back me up. I know it. Cheers, Ellen |
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When a woman puts a man in his place.....
AND HE SULKS!
"Ellen MacArthur" wrote | A woman puts a man in his place. What does the man do most of the time? He acts like | it didn't happen. He ignores it. He hides. He tucks tail. Makes himself scarce..... I see it all | the time. Self-proclaimed experts who can't even make their own case. Afraid to admit they | don't know it all. | Is that why certain *men* here ignore my questions? Little dumb blonde Ellen makes them | look impotent? | Where's Jeff? He knows the rules better than anybody here. He'd back me up. I know it. | | Cheers, | Ellen |
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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
Where's Jeff? He knows the rules better than anybody here. He'd back me up. I know it. Sorry Ellen, I can't be that much help. As for your first claim: "Sailboats are the stand-on vessel in crossing situations with powerboats. One little power boat towing another isn't a RAM. The rule is for big ships tugs and barges. It's not meant for small recreational power boats." This is not true; there is very little difference between a recreational vessel and a small tow vessel. In fact, they could be virtually identical. Moreover, another boater isn't required to look inside the tower's wallet and see if he has a towing endorsement. The rules may have been written with large ships in mind, but the apply to all vessels. As for the second claim: "Towing a fellow power boater who broke down or ran out of gas isn't part of the definition of work. Work's got to do with laying pipes, dredging, towing if your licensed to do it, repairing buoys etc. Look at it this way. What if I decided to do a little dredging. I put something that dredges in the back of my little recreational runabout." Again not true. If someone actually shows the RAM signal, you do not have the freedom to say "I don't think he really has a license so I don't have to give him room." Frankly, I don't think towing a friend is in any way illegal, and you can declare yourself a RAM even if you are not commercial. The court may not support your claim, but that's a different issue. And your third point: "As long as the powerboat that's towing can maneuver OK then it's not RAM. All it had to do to keep outta the way of Scotty was to throttle down or take it out of gear or turn the steering wheel. Duh! It had no rule on it's side to expect a sailboat to give way." Here I would agree, and I said so on my other post. However, you continued with: "Another thing. You can see from (i) thru (vi) that work means serious work. It doesn't mean playing around on a pleasure boat or helping out somebody whose motor broke." This, as a generality, is nonsense. There are lots of situations where amateurs do "serious work." Moreover, towing a boat with a boat not setup for towing, is not always an easy thing. Further, if the tow declares itself a RAM, you have to respect that. And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very limited. And one more thing: you should listen to Otn, he has more experience than all of us put together. |
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"Jeff" wrote | This, as a generality, is nonsense. There are lots of situations | where amateurs do "serious work." Moreover, towing a boat with a boat | not setup for towing, is not always an easy thing. Further, if the | tow declares itself a RAM, you have to respect that. No I don't have to respect it! People can't go around "declaring" they are RAM. They have to be in compliance with a rule that says they're RAM. That's part of what my dredge example is all about. I can tell the marine patrol officer that I'm a dredging but he's goona arrest me, throw me in jail and I'll stay there a long time because I'm not dredging. I'm breaking the law. It's the rule that makes them RAM. Nothing else. Not if they say so, not if God says so... "Oh officer I say I'm obeying the speed limit so that makes it fact." "Sorry mam, please sign the ticket here..." Your like otn. You left out work that severly limits maneuverability. You can't pick and choose. Both are a necessary part of the rule.... Using only one part or another is not using the rule... | And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More | often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've | done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, | and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights | I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide | berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is | not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and | capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very | limited. So, the rule says nothing about limited options. It says work that severely limits maneuverabilty. Your whaler loses both ways. It's not work as shown in the examples, (any court would say doing a favor isn't work) and there's no severe limitation of maneuverability. You know severe don't you. Look at the examples. A dredge is stuck to the pipe. It's severly limited. A minsweeper has to stay on a particular course or it will blow up. It's severly limited. A salvage or dive operator is attached to the wreck or divers by hoses and cables. And on it goes. Show me one example in the rule where the boat can turn right, turn left, go forward, back up, go around in circles, speed up slow down, stop and drink a beer. All the things it can do normally... | And one more thing: you should listen to Otn, he has more experience | than all of us put together. Maybe so but experience isn't the be all and end all. Lawyers and the courts are. That's why the rules have to be looked at with a legal eye. Legal and experience are two different things. The court will call *expert* witnesses but they're only a small part of the proceedings. Sorry, but I can't seem to have much respect for otn when it comes to his understanding of this rule. He's wrong. Those little pleasure boats-neither one is RAM. The one that was broke down was NUC but that's another story. You seem to be familiar with court cases and the rules. I bet there's one proving me right. Cheers, Ellen |
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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Jeff" wrote | This, as a generality, is nonsense. There are lots of situations | where amateurs do "serious work." Moreover, towing a boat with a boat | not setup for towing, is not always an easy thing. Further, if the | tow declares itself a RAM, you have to respect that. No I don't have to respect it! People can't go around "declaring" they are RAM. They have to be in compliance with a rule that says they're RAM. Not really. On the water, a vessel is a RAM because it declares itself to be one. After the fact, a judge may say that was not that was not proper. A vessel is bound by the signals it sees. If, for example, you see a sailboat without a steaming light or cone, but with exhaust smoke, you can't assume it really under power since it may actually be running a genset. If someone is showing tow lights and RAM lights but the boat doesn't otherwise look like a commercial tow boat, you cannot assume he must be lying. That's part of what my dredge example is all about. I can tell the marine patrol officer that I'm a dredging but he's goona arrest me, throw me in jail and I'll stay there a long time because I'm not dredging. I'm breaking the law. It's the rule that makes them RAM. Nothing else. Not if they say so, not if God says so... "Oh officer I say I'm obeying the speed limit so that makes it fact." "Sorry mam, please sign the ticket here..." Irrelevant. You can make up all sorts of stories, but you simply can't say that because a boat looks like a recreational vessel is must be an illegal tow and you're not bound by the signals it shows. Your like otn. You left out work that severly limits maneuverability. You can't pick and choose. Both are a necessary part of the rule.... Using only one part or another is not using the rule... I didn't leave it out. Its not for me to say what affects maneuverability. Its for the skipper of the boat. A judge can say later that he was wrong, but another boater on the water can't. | And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More | often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've | done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, | and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights | I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide | berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is | not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and | capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very | limited. So, the rule says nothing about limited options. It says work that severely limits maneuverabilty. Your whaler loses both ways. It's not work as shown in the examples, (any court would say doing a favor isn't work) and there's no severe limitation of maneuverability. You know severe don't you. Look at the examples. A dredge is stuck to the pipe. It's severly limited. A minsweeper has to stay on a particular course or it will blow up. It's severly limited. A salvage or dive operator is attached to the wreck or divers by hoses and cables. And on it goes. Show me one example in the rule where the boat can turn right, turn left, go forward, back up, go around in circles, speed up slow down, stop and drink a beer. All the things it can do normally... You know not of what you say. Most of the tows I mentioned were "work" since I was employed to run the "crash boat" at several sailing clubs. However, sometimes it did it on a volunteer basis. And sometimes I did it for boaters not affiliated with the clubs. So does the observer get to say "he's not on the payroll today so he has no rights"? Also, the boats we generally had to rescue were not self bailing, so they came up with a ton of water in them. Also, in colder weather, we took the "survivors" back to the dock brought in the capsize singlehanded. Are you still going to claim that towing a 12 foot dink filled with water creates no limitation of maneuverability? Clearly, you have no experience in this area. | And one more thing: you should listen to Otn, he has more experience | than all of us put together. Maybe so but experience isn't the be all and end all. Lawyers and the courts are. That's why the rules have to be looked at with a legal eye. Legal and experience are two different things. The court will call *expert* witnesses but they're only a small part of the proceedings. Sorry, but I can't seem to have much respect for otn when it comes to his understanding of this rule. He's wrong. Those little pleasure boats-neither one is RAM. The one that was broke down was NUC but that's another story. You seem to be familiar with court cases and the rules. I bet there's one proving me right. The issue here is not whether Scotty's tow was a RAM, but whether you can claim that its impossible for such boats to ever be a RAM. And on that point, you are clearly wrong. Cheers, Ellen |
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"Jeff" wrote | Ellen MacArthur wrote: | No I don't have to respect it! People can't go around "declaring" they are | RAM. They have to be in compliance with a rule that says they're RAM. | | Not really. On the water, a vessel is a RAM because it declares | itself to be one. After the fact, a judge may say that was not that | was not proper I agree with this. But how do they declare it. They have to use lights and shapes. The boat Scotty's talking about had no such lights or shapes. How can you know another boat is RAM unless they identify themselves? You can't. You must use what your eyes and ears tell you. And Scotty should have used his eyes and ears to tell he was in a crossing situation with a motorboat. It's the same reason why anchored boats are required to show lights and shapes. You have to know it's anchored so you can know how to treat it... | A vessel is bound by the signals it sees. If, for example, you see a | sailboat without a steaming light or cone, but with exhaust smoke, you | can't assume it really under power since it may actually be running a | genset. If someone is showing tow lights and RAM lights but the boat | doesn't otherwise look like a commercial tow boat, you cannot assume | he must be lying. Exactly like I said. It has to identify itself. You can't go around assuming every boat is RAM or NUC or Fishing, etc. Scotty's little pleasure boat wasn't showing any shapes or lights. | I didn't leave it out. Its not for me to say what affects | maneuverability. Its for the skipper of the boat. A judge can say | later that he was wrong, but another boater on the water can't. I disagree. I say it's up to you to know the rule that defines RAM says it must be *severly* unable to maneuver. You see it going along a hootin' and a hollerin' having plenty of time to act obnoxious. It ain't hooked to a pipe, it ain't dredging, it ain't engaged in dive operations and it ain't trawling with nets. It's towing but it ain's severly unable to maneuver. It's maneuvering for heavens sake. That's enough to tell you it ain't severly unable to maneuver. It's up to you to choose the rule to operate under. You say "there's a motorboat. I'm a sailboat the rules say I must stand on until... | | And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More | | often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've | | done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, | | and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights | | I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide | | berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is | | not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and | | capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very | | limited. | | So, the rule says nothing about limited options. It says work that severely | limits maneuverabilty. Your whaler loses both ways. It's not work as shown | in the examples, (any court would say doing a favor isn't work) and there's | no severe limitation of maneuverability. You know severe don't you. Look at the | examples. A dredge is stuck to the pipe. It's severly limited. A minsweeper has | to stay on a particular course or it will blow up. It's severly limited. A salvage | or dive operator is attached to the wreck or divers by hoses and cables. And | on it goes. Show me one example in the rule where the boat can turn right, | turn left, go forward, back up, go around in circles, speed up slow down, stop | and drink a beer. All the things it can do normally... | | Are you still going to claim that towing a 12 | foot dink filled with water creates no limitation of maneuverability? | Clearly, you have no experience in this area. I'm saying according to the examples in the rule it AIN'T *severely* limited in ability to maneuver. Good grief! | The issue here is not whether Scotty's tow was a RAM, but whether you | can claim that its impossible for such boats to ever be a RAM. And on | that point, you are clearly wrong. I'm not saying that. I'm saying in Scotty's case it was clearly not a RAM. Any fool can see it. Read the examples in the Rules again. They tell you some examples of what it means to be severely unmaneuverable. They say there are others. But, it follows the others have to be of the same kind. One little pleasure boat towing his buddy because he ran out of gas can't be called severe. There might be some things when little pleasure boats are severely unable to maneuver. Towing another boat of similar size isn't one of them.. That's all. Cheers, Ellen |
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Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Jeff" wrote | Ellen MacArthur wrote: | No I don't have to respect it! People can't go around "declaring" they are | RAM. They have to be in compliance with a rule that says they're RAM. | | Not really. On the water, a vessel is a RAM because it declares | itself to be one. After the fact, a judge may say that was not that | was not proper I agree with this. But how do they declare it. They have to use lights and shapes. The boat Scotty's talking about had no such lights or shapes. How can you know another boat is RAM unless they identify themselves? You can't. You must use what your eyes and ears tell you. And Scotty should have used his eyes and ears to tell he was in a crossing situation with a motorboat. It's the same reason why anchored boats are required to show lights and shapes. You have to know it's anchored so you can know how to treat it... So now you're backpedaling. As I said in my first post, Scotty's case was likely not a RAM. | A vessel is bound by the signals it sees. If, for example, you see a | sailboat without a steaming light or cone, but with exhaust smoke, you | can't assume it really under power since it may actually be running a | genset. If someone is showing tow lights and RAM lights but the boat | doesn't otherwise look like a commercial tow boat, you cannot assume | he must be lying. Exactly like I said. It has to identify itself. You can't go around assuming every boat is RAM or NUC or Fishing, etc. Scotty's little pleasure boat wasn't showing any shapes or lights. You were there? | I didn't leave it out. Its not for me to say what affects | maneuverability. Its for the skipper of the boat. A judge can say | later that he was wrong, but another boater on the water can't. I disagree. I say it's up to you to know the rule that defines RAM says it must be *severly* unable to maneuver. You see it going along a hootin' and a hollerin' having plenty of time to act obnoxious. It ain't hooked to a pipe, it ain't dredging, it ain't engaged in dive operations and it ain't trawling with nets. It's towing but it ain's severly unable to maneuver. It's maneuvering for heavens sake. That's enough to tell you it ain't severly unable to maneuver. It's up to you to choose the rule to operate under. You say "there's a motorboat. I'm a sailboat the rules say I must stand on until... Total nonsense. Maybe if you stomp your feet and hold your breath it would be different. | | And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More | | often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've | | done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, | | and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights | | I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide | | berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is | | not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and | | capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very | | limited. | | So, the rule says nothing about limited options. It says work that severely | limits maneuverabilty. Your whaler loses both ways. It's not work as shown | in the examples, (any court would say doing a favor isn't work) and there's | no severe limitation of maneuverability. You know severe don't you. Look at the | examples. A dredge is stuck to the pipe. It's severly limited. A minsweeper has | to stay on a particular course or it will blow up. It's severly limited. A salvage | or dive operator is attached to the wreck or divers by hoses and cables. And | on it goes. Show me one example in the rule where the boat can turn right, | turn left, go forward, back up, go around in circles, speed up slow down, stop | and drink a beer. All the things it can do normally... | | Are you still going to claim that towing a 12 | foot dink filled with water creates no limitation of maneuverability? | Clearly, you have no experience in this area. I'm saying according to the examples in the rule it AIN'T *severely* limited in ability to maneuver. Good grief! Perhaps you should read the rules again. Note in particular the words "but not limited to." | The issue here is not whether Scotty's tow was a RAM, but whether you | can claim that its impossible for such boats to ever be a RAM. And on | that point, you are clearly wrong. I'm not saying that. I'm saying in Scotty's case it was clearly not a RAM. Any fool can see it. Read the examples in the Rules again. They tell you some examples of what it means to be severely unmaneuverable. They say there are others. But, it follows the others have to be of the same kind. One little pleasure boat towing his buddy because he ran out of gas can't be called severe. The rules specifically include "a vessel engaged in a towing operation such as severely restricts the towing vessel and her tow in their ability to deviate from their course." It doesn't say "but not including recreational boats." Since you clearly don't have any experience in this area, you probably don't know that towboats are setup with the line attached well forward of the rudder. Without this, the towing vessel has very limited control. For this reason, recreational tows often have restricted maneuverability. There might be some things when little pleasure boats are severely unable to maneuver. Towing another boat of similar size isn't one of them.. That's all. You just show your ignorance here. Most of the time it should work out OK, but not necessarily. |
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"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message reenews.net... "Jeff" wrote | This, as a generality, is nonsense. There are lots of situations | where amateurs do "serious work." Moreover, towing a boat with a boat | not setup for towing, is not always an easy thing. Further, if the | tow declares itself a RAM, you have to respect that. No I don't have to respect it! People can't go around "declaring" they are RAM. They have to be in compliance with a rule that says they're RAM. That's part of what my dredge example is all about. I can tell the marine patrol officer that I'm a dredging but he's goona arrest me, throw me in jail and I'll stay there a long time because I'm not dredging. I'm breaking the law. It's the rule that makes them RAM. Nothing else. Not if they say so, not if God says so... "Oh officer I say I'm obeying the speed limit so that makes it fact." "Sorry mam, please sign the ticket here..." Your like otn. You left out work that severly limits maneuverability. You can't pick and choose. Both are a necessary part of the rule.... Using only one part or another is not using the rule... | And using the trawler with its dinghy is not a good analogy. More | often than not amateur tows involve two equally sized boats. I've | done hundreds of tows, usually in a 13 foot Whaler, or small launch, | and many of them I would consider "unruly." Though I never had lights | I often conveyed with gestures my hope that other would give me a wide | berth. BTW, try towing a flooded dinghy sometime - slowing down is | not a good option because the boat will immediately swerve and | capsize. When the tow has a lot of momentum, the options become very | limited. So, the rule says nothing about limited options. It says work that severely limits maneuverabilty. Your whaler loses both ways. It's not work as shown in the examples, (any court would say doing a favor isn't work) and there's no severe limitation of maneuverability. You know severe don't you. Look at the examples. A dredge is stuck to the pipe. It's severly limited. A minsweeper has to stay on a particular course or it will blow up. It's severly limited. A salvage or dive operator is attached to the wreck or divers by hoses and cables. And on it goes. Show me one example in the rule where the boat can turn right, turn left, go forward, back up, go around in circles, speed up slow down, stop and drink a beer. All the things it can do normally... | And one more thing: you should listen to Otn, he has more experience | than all of us put together. Maybe so but experience isn't the be all and end all. Lawyers and the courts are. That's why the rules have to be looked at with a legal eye. Legal and experience are two different things. The court will call *expert* witnesses but they're only a small part of the proceedings. Sorry, but I can't seem to have much respect for otn when it comes to his understanding of this rule. He's wrong. Those little pleasure boats-neither one is RAM. The one that was broke down was NUC but that's another story. You seem to be familiar with court cases and the rules. I bet there's one proving me right. Cheers, Ellen Quite a knowledgeable post from such a diminutive blond bimbette. If only you really looked like those photos, Neal. Max |
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Maxprop wrote:
Quite a knowledgeable post from such a diminutive blond bimbette. If only you really looked like those photos, Neal. Max And of course, incorrect. More confirmation its Neal. |
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"Jeff" wrote | And of course, incorrect. More confirmation its Neal. Totally correct. You said so yourself. You just said it wishy washy. I said it firm. I even had otn eating outta my hand.... Honestly, you men are awful girly. Is there just one man here who isn't a wimp? Besides maybe Scotty and Joe. Cheers, Ellen |
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