Oh, yes I am. I’ve been becalmed in an entire fleet of sailing ships starting a race across the Atlantic. Of the 150 vessels, take a guess as to how many NUC signals there were. Older, crustier, saltier masters of huge square riggers abounded. Not a one declared NUC. Take your next shot, Beer boy.
No, I’m not. Which rule requires a sailing vessel to motor?
I’ve said often, no vessel has the right to hit any other vessel. It seems here that all you smarty-pants captains would be the ones
No. Utter tripe. They are rules for “preventing collisions at sea”, not spreading the blame around when there are collisions.
Really? I’m not reading Rule 2 when some idiot is ramming me. I’m doing whatever I can. How many rules has the ramming vessel broken to get to a point of extremis?
And so I switch on my magic NUC lights and an invisible force field magically shields my vessel. Is that your argument? It seems to be the argument on this thread. NUC allows me to stay stopped, but sailing doesn’t apparently. Are you the idiot ramming me?