"Capt. JG" wrote in
:

Larry, if you or anyone else really thought I was serious, then you have
more problems that can be solved here.

--


Oh. It's very hard to tell who's serious and who's just trolling, given
I've seen this belligerent attitude problem on both sides of the issue out
on the harbor.

--
Larry

"Bill McKee" wrote

I guess you never pass on a 2 lane road. Both oncoming and
same direction
traffic.


I sail in a bay, not on the road.

Does your little toy jet ski have wheels?

SBV

Gary wrote:
DSK wrote:
Bill McKee wrote:

I may get a minority of the blame

Nah, majority.

... but he CAN NOT CHANGE DIRECTION IN FRONT OF THE OVERTAKING BOAT!
He gets the majority of the fault.

Please cite the ColReg which says so.

DSK

Rule 17

Action by Stand-on Vessel

(a)(i) Where one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other
shall keep her course and speed.

You guys are being really silly.

The boat that is overtaking has to avoid the boat being overtaken
regardless of what the overtaken boat does. If the overtaking boat
does not avoid the boat he is overtaking then he is at fault.

Also the ColRegs advise that the overtaking boat should signal to
indicate intentions. How often is that done?

And I don't mean signaling like the menhaden boat that wanted to pass
us coming into the Greater Wicomico by giving 5 blasts on the horn
because he wanted to go straight up the river and didn't want to
deviate around us although he had plenty of room to do so since we
were on the extreme starboard edge of the marked channel. Technically
we should have maintained course and speed. But what we really did
was circle out of the marked channel (since there was sufficient water
over there)

Suppose there are two power boats in a narrow channel. Boat B is
behind boat A and wants to overtake. So Boat B expects Boat A to
maintain course and speed. BUT... the channel turns. Boat A is NOT
expected to maintain course and speed so that it runs into the channel
bank.

Moreover when passing in a narrow channel, it makes it much easier on
everyone if boat A cuts back on his speed to let boat B pass.
Regardless of what the ColRegs say.


grandma Rosalie

Bill McKee wrote:
I guess you never pass on a 2 lane road. Both oncoming and same direction
traffic.


Hey Bill.
Here it is for you ins very simple terms

A boat is NOT a car.

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
Bill McKee wrote:
I guess you never pass on a 2 lane road. Both oncoming and same
direction traffic.

Hey Bill.
Here it is for you ins very simple terms

A boat is NOT a car.

DSK


But a car can be a boat.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
Bill McKee wrote:
I guess you never pass on a 2 lane road. Both oncoming and same
direction traffic.

Hey Bill.
Here it is for you ins very simple terms

A boat is NOT a car.

DSK


But passing is passing. And a car can be a boat. Both the Amphicar, and a
couple models lately out of Cuba, and did you ever see a 1957 Buick?

At this point, you've made it quite obvious that you are a clueless feeb
who is never going to get a clue, no matter how patiently it is
explained to you. But for the benefit of others, I'm going to go just a
bit further here.


A boat is NOT a car.


Bill McKee wrote:
But passing is passing.

No, it is not. If you would drive a boat at 60 mph just a few feet from
another boat... or any object in the water... then you should be
physically restrained from operating a boat since you are a deadly
hazard to yourself and others.

Are cars affected by wakes? Currents? Leeway? Do boats have brakes?

Suppose you "pass" another boat, just as you wuould in a car, at the
same moment a wake strikes that other boat and causes it to slew 20
degrees momentarily? Or just when your own boat meets a wake?

If you overtake another vessel in such a way that you cannot avoid that
vessel if his boat turns, or rolls, or side-slips, or has some minor
equipment failure, the *you* have acted dangerously and incompetently.

DSK

DSK you are a pompus ass.

"DSK" wrote in message
...
At this point, you've made it quite obvious that you are a clueless feeb
who is never going to get a clue, no matter how patiently it is explained
to you. But for the benefit of others, I'm going to go just a bit further
here.


A boat is NOT a car.


Bill McKee wrote:
But passing is passing.

No, it is not. If you would drive a boat at 60 mph just a few feet from
another boat... or any object in the water... then you should be
physically restrained from operating a boat since you are a deadly hazard
to yourself and others.

Are cars affected by wakes? Currents? Leeway? Do boats have brakes?

Suppose you "pass" another boat, just as you wuould in a car, at the same
moment a wake strikes that other boat and causes it to slew 20 degrees
momentarily? Or just when your own boat meets a wake?

If you overtake another vessel in such a way that you cannot avoid that
vessel if his boat turns, or rolls, or side-slips, or has some minor
equipment failure, the *you* have acted dangerously and incompetently.

DSK

"Bill McKee" wrote
I guess you never pass on a 2 lane road. Both oncoming and
same
direction traffic.

Hey Bill.
Here it is for you ins very simple terms

A boat is NOT a car.

DSK


But passing is passing.


Where Bill boats they have yellow lines painted on the water.
And traffic lights at the intersections.

I really believe he has turn signals on his boat.

SBV

Maybe, but he's right.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
. ..
DSK you are a pompus ass.

"DSK" wrote in message
...
At this point, you've made it quite obvious that you are a clueless feeb
who is never going to get a clue, no matter how patiently it is explained
to you. But for the benefit of others, I'm going to go just a bit further
here.


A boat is NOT a car.


Bill McKee wrote:
But passing is passing.

No, it is not. If you would drive a boat at 60 mph just a few feet from
another boat... or any object in the water... then you should be
physically restrained from operating a boat since you are a deadly hazard
to yourself and others.

Are cars affected by wakes? Currents? Leeway? Do boats have brakes?

Suppose you "pass" another boat, just as you wuould in a car, at the same
moment a wake strikes that other boat and causes it to slew 20 degrees
momentarily? Or just when your own boat meets a wake?

If you overtake another vessel in such a way that you cannot avoid that
vessel if his boat turns, or rolls, or side-slips, or has some minor
equipment failure, the *you* have acted dangerously and incompetently.

DSK