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Sometimes common sense overrides rulesMy take has always been, the golden rule. he who has the gold makes the rules. get the hell out of the way for the bigger boat. unless you want to spend time in a hospital and litigation. Just move and enjoy the rest of the day. To maintain course because you have the right of way is idiotic. never had a collision, so works for me.
I think there might be differences when it involves two sailboats.Both are sailboats so both probably had that snooty sailboater navigation attitude that they always have the right of way. It looks like the larger boat was able to stop quickly, and the smaller was coming from the starboard side, so the larger one should have had been the give-way vessel. But I guess that will only matter to the insurance companies.
I think there might be differences when it involves two sailboats.
I can’t count the number of times that I’ve seen a sail boat blowing by with no one at the helm. The last time, I yelled at him to take note of the piling just in time for him to run into it.How did either Captain (and I use that term lightly) let those two boats get that close together?
We cannot tell if there was restricted navigation of the larger boat.
Yes, the rules define who is the stand-on and the give way. But there is also the rule that each captain has the responsibility to avoid a collision. Looked like both captains were aware of the pending collision and neither took evasive action.
So let me ask this? Will try to keep short as I can.
Last night watching Forensic Files at 2am, about one boat hit another on Cayuga Lake in upper NY. At night. Both 21 bowriders, one ran over the other at night. Hit boat driver killed instantly, passenger girl lost arm from the prop as the hitting boat went over the other. Forensics found the hitting boat arrested the driver. Driver and his buddy passenger said they knew they hit something but went around and couldn’t find anything in the dark moonless night.
driver got 4 years.
Now the punch line…
The hit boat was drifting with NO lights on, engine off, in a boating channel, on a dark moonless night. I think the guy got screwed getting 4 years in prison.
What say you?
My take has always been, the golden rule. he who has the gold makes the rules. get the hell out of the way for the bigger boat. unless you want to spend time in a hospital and litigation. Just move and enjoy the rest of the day. To maintain course because you have the right of way is idiotic. never had a collision, so works for me.