"Jeff" wrote
| You, however, have still failed to come up with the other flaw in
| Neal's pecking order, even after I pretty much handed it to you. It
| last went like this:
|
| And does the Narrow Channel Rule really say the sailboats are
| giveway with respect to "channel bound" vessels?
|
| No. It says shall not impede. But shall not impede is another way
| of saying give way, isn't it?
|
| Is it? Why would the rules have two different ways of saying the
| same thing? Where does it use "impede" and where does it use
| "giveway"?

You musta read my mind. I just answered that way up in this thread where it branched off.
I said shall not impede was for narrow channels and give way was for open waters where
there was room to maneuver...

Cheers,
Ellen