With regards to maneuvering for a safe passage in restricted waters the most common error I"ve observed in less experienced mates is a course change sufficient to give the minimum required CPA by ARPA but not sufficient to be apparent visually to the other vessel. In open waters with lots of room…

[image] Hogsnort: Generally most of the circumstances you mention can and should be covered under the bylaws of the port operating authority. Yes … but … laws don’t necessarily help at the time of incident. I have to collide and defend myself in court. I haven’t collided. And, as I’ve stat…

Close quarters situations between large and small craft within the port are comprehensively covered by the law of tonnage. I can relate; threading a (tiny) ship into the narrow inlets of Brittany, you find yourself in an unholy soup of launches and day sailors that collectively form a sort of visco…

[image] Klaveness: Close quarters situations between large and small craft within the port are comprehensively covered by the law of tonnage. I understand that but my point to the deep sea mariners here’s that the actual rules have to be ‘broken’ because of the special circumstances of these …

Well, you picked a poor example to illustrate the central point of your argument. Yes, it’s an instance where departures from the rules are made as a matter of course, although you could have gone with ship vs support tug if you really wanted to make it noncontroversial. However, it does nothing t…

[image] Klaveness: Well, you picked a poor example to illustrate the central point of your argument. I used those examples because they are actual, real examples I experience underway regularly. I’ve spoken with dozens of other tall ship captains and all of them agreed they generally stand o…

[image] Jughead: What seems to be controversial is that I said warships I had served in tended to keep well clear of merchant ships (by altering away before there’s any need to invoke the rules) and almost deferential to them. But that’s not what you said. [image] USS Fitzgerald Collision:…

I don’t see it. Two versions of the same thing. We stayed away. What’s so hard about that. The rules might have become relevant much later after a period of time, but we stayed away prior to that. That’s the plain English. You’re trying to invoke colregs to oblige warships to stand on for a co…

Ugggg. How many more days is this thread going to last?

How many times can I say the same thing and still be deliberately misunderstood?

[image] Jughead: How many times can I say the same thing… I’m afraid we are going to find out…

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Kennebec_Captain September 29, 2020, 11:45am 69

But that’s not what you said.

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