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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 16:39:29 EDT
In a message dated 09/27/2001 11:52:53 AM Atlantic Daylight Time,
writes:
> Sorry Norm, you are wrong on two counts. First, if you are in sight of
> another vessel within a half mile, signals are MANDATORY Inland (not so
> International). (Don't forget, sailboat with engine on is a power-driven
> vessel.)
(quoted Rule 34 and 17)
I don't understand why you say I am wrong and then quote a Rule about whistle
signals. I mentioned nothing about whistle signals.
But since you brought it up.
There must be more to it than just the two Rules you quoted. I have been
anchored less than a quarter mile from the Gloucester Coast Guard station,
which is next to the Harbormasters dock. The boats of both these law
enforcement agencies come and go and maneuver about the harbor is also very
busy with fishing vessels moving about constantly.
The ONLY whistle signals I have ever heard here have been a long and three
shorts as a boat backs out of a slip.
> Of course the reality is that slowing down to be passed makes more sense
> than receiving a bad wake. But if something goes awry, could an attorney
> nail you for doing so? Probably so. Personally, I'd slow down as you do,
> but it is against the COLREGS. There are so many of the COLREG's that
don't
> make sense. Studying for my Captain's license, we have taken them apart.
> They are too complex, and too many professional captains, yet alone
> recreational skippers, don't really know them well. But we are stuck with
> them in the courts.
As for maintaining speed while being overtaken.
Rule 2b states: In construing and complying with these Rules due regard
shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special
circumstances, including the limitations of the vessels involved, which make
a departure from these Rules necessary to avoid immediate danger.
Slowing down when being overtaken decreases immediate danger.
Norm
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