"Harry Harris" wrote in message
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"Edgar" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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It seems to me sailing from a pilot house is illegal. How can
anybody
comply with Colregs rule 5 while inside the pilothouse.

RULE 5 Look-out
Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight
and
hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the
prevailing
circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the
situation and of the risk of collision.

You can't hear things well inside a pilot house for one and for
another
you just can't maintain a proper lookout by sight with the structure
blocking most of the view.

Wilbur Hubbard

So you are saying that most large ships are illegal?

Not at all. Large ships have more than one or two people running them.
If need be, a man can be posted where he can see and hear. And,
pilothouses on big ships are way up high. The view is better from up
there than from the low pilothouse on a sailboat. I do think hearing
is a definite problem in a ship's pilothouse, though. It simply is not
possible to comply with the hearing part of Rule 5 from the pilot
house of any vessel. You need to be outside in order to hear properly.

Wilbur Hubbard

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Would you please stop it. You're looking as dumb as Charlie Morgan
trying to be DSK!

Wilbur Hubbard