Years ago, I remember seeing what looked like Flash Cards laying around in some wheel houses. They were spiral bound and looked like they would be pretty easy to carry with you. Some of the Captains that I worked with used to use them to train new Deckhands to be lookouts.
While I think that a new mate reading a copy of COLREGS while on watch crossing the South West Pass safety fairway is not necessarily a bad thing. If I walked upstairs after breakfast and saw that, I would probably at least sit at my deck (with aft station radar repeater turned my way) until he got off watch.
[QUOTE=yacht_sailor;138324]A racing sailboat has about an encyclopedia book of rules, special conditions, appeals, and precedents to deal with. You could keep a full time lawyer busy with them.[/QUOTE]
a very good rule to follow if you’re a blow boater is that you should just stay the HELL OUT OF THE WAY of all the rest of us…
Commercial vessels should have automatic right of way over all yachts and that all yachtsmen knew that and obeyed it
I still have my rules book from when I was an E3 and started striking BM in the coast guard. That was when they had the work book with cut outs and instructions on what to highlight and underline. It shows its years with electrical tape keeping the binding together. I used to have it memorized. Not anymore, so I read a rule everyday on my hitch. Just to refresh. I blame years of drinking on the remainder of the brain cells that don’t store information as well.
[QUOTE=Quimby;138350]I still have my rules book from when I was an E3 and started striking BM in the coast guard. That was when they had the work book with cut outs and instructions on what to highlight and underline. It shows its years with electrical tape keeping the binding together. I used to have it memorized. Not anymore, so I read a rule everyday on my hitch. Just to refresh. I blame years of drinking on the remainder of the brain cells that don’t store information as well.[/QUOTE]
I didn’t have the Rules of the Road book, but I carried around a bunch of print-outs from the BMRs bound together with sail-twin and/or shot-line. I kind of wish I had opted for the CG instead of the Navy. If you’re a BM on a carrier, you might as well just be a sack of shit, as that’s the way that people treated us. Always about the air wing! Always about the yeoman and office workers that are not covered in paint so they can shake hands with an Admiral and get a photo and a cool little “challenge coin!”
Dude! BMs in the CG were like JC. They could walk on water. They could do no wrong. They sat around like couch potatoes yelling and screaming at non rates. The epitome of uselessness except when the small boat had to be deployed…the Captain blowing kisses to them as they zoomed off into the sunset. Ahh yes. The Boatswains Mate.
Well we have this invention called COLREGS that outlines who stays out of whose way 
You could propose an amendment to it that outlines something along those lines. HEY - I am on a DELIVERY so all you fishing boats fking MOVE! I think I am liking this already 
[QUOTE=c.captain;138349]a very good rule to follow if you’re a blow boater is that you should just stay the HELL OUT OF THE WAY of all the rest of us…
Commercial vessels should have automatic right of way over all yachts and that all yachtsmen knew that and obeyed it[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=yacht_sailor;138373]Well we have this invention called COLREGS that outlines who stays out of whose way
You could propose an amendment to it that outlines something along those lines. HEY - I am on a DELIVERY so all you fishing boats fking MOVE! I think I am liking this already :D[/QUOTE]
From rule 9…
(b) A vessel of less than 20 meters in length or a sailing vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel [which | that] can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway.
© A vessel engaged in fishing [may | shall] not impede the passage of any other vessel navigating within a narrow channel or fairway.
Added one for you
(d) The guy that was trolling back and forth under the Bay Bridge and ignoring the repeated 5 whistle blasts from the tanker needs his boat taken away.
[QUOTE=Jeffrox;138376]From rule 9…
(b) A vessel of less than 20 meters in length or a sailing vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel [which | that] can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway.
© A vessel engaged in fishing [may | shall] not impede the passage of any other vessel navigating within a narrow channel or fairway.[/QUOTE]
The rules of the road multiple choice questions are great teaching tools. But most of them deal with abstract situations in open water with only two vessels and no there restrictions or limitations. And thats not where vessels tend to get into trouble.
Imagine if mariners followed the rules of the road about making passing agreements using the ship’s horn rather than the the ship’s radio when navigating heavily trafficked areas
[QUOTE=PMC;138402]The rules of the road multiple choice questions are great teaching tools. But most of them deal with abstract situations in open water with only two vessels and no there restrictions or limitations. And thats not where vessels tend to get into trouble.
Imagine if mariners followed the rules of the road about making passing agreements using the ship’s horn rather than the the ship’s radio when navigating heavily trafficked areas[/QUOTE]
Using the radio is in the rules and elsewhere…but, it could be interesting if whistle signals augmented with light signals were only used!