Rules of the road. whos at fault this time.

Rule 10: Traffic Separation Schemes

(j) A vessel of less than 20 meters in length or a sailing vessel shall not impede the safe passage of a power-driven vessel following a traffic lane.
 
oldgrowth":3ncjq482 said:
If you look closely at the 23 to 25 second mark you can see someone go over the starboard side of the sail boat. I wonder what happened to him/her?


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Thought I noticed that too. There were a bunch of RIBs in the vicinity, hope they picked him/her up. Would love to have seen what happened when that boat passed the screws of that humongous ship!

Charlie
 
That would be the smart guy going over the side. Hope he made it to reproduce later in life and thus improve the gene pool of sail boater, they need it. As for the captain I hope the prop ended his chance of reproduction.
 
starcrafttom":3fdrivnu said:
That would be the smart guy going over the side. Hope he made it to reproduce later in life and thus improve the gene pool of sail boater, they need it. As for the captain I hope the prop ended his chance of reproduction.
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Not "nice" Tom, although I agree with you halfway! :roll: :thup Hate to see anyone get hurt at sea, even the dumb ones!!

Charlie
 
Everything I've read is that if the big boat is in a standard lane, then it has the right of way. However there is also a rule of the road that speaks to the boat with the ability to least maneuver having the right of way. In this case, clearly, that giant ship is not able to avoid the sailboat, but the sailboat captain was way out of line to try to cut across the front of the ship.
 
From other forums the 3 RIBS got to the boat--and person in the water. No one was seriously injured and the man in the water was pulled out--the sailboat hull was intact.

There is no "right of way" issue here. It is just foolishness that the racing sailboat tried to make it in front of the freighter. I suspect that he was making more leeway, mostly due to the current, than he calculated. But he should have never taken that chance.

I used to race in harbors where there was large commercial traffic--and we always gave them a very wide berth.
 
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