.... As a stand on
vessel you are REQUIRED Rule 17(a) to maintain your course and speed.

Unless, of course, that is impossible.


Gerald wrote:
No, the rule does not say "Unless, of course, that is impossible".


Well, I guess if the rules can require the impossible, then
why not demand burdened vessels to lift straight up in the
air, to get out of your way?

Don't be absurd, the ColRegs cannot require a vessel to
perform an impossible maneuver.



... Note that the rules do not say that you must maintain your course
and speed except when the wind shifts, or the water gets too shallow, or
whatever else your problem may be.


What a stupid thing to say. If the water "becomes too shallow" then
1- you will most certainly not maintain speed, no matter hwo you try to
maintain course


Certainly not if you run aground. Are you unfamiliar with the water you are
sailing in? Do you have charts? Are you a graduate of the "Sail by
Braille" school?


No to all the above.

OTOH if you haven't run aground, you've never been anywhere.


2- under the rules, you are then constrained by draft.


DO YOU EVER READ THE RULES????????


Yes

"Constrained by draft" is a term that apples ONLY to power-driven vessles

Bull****.

I think I see the problem here....

DSK