I recall the first time the "sailboats have right-of-way in the fog" issue came up,
several regulars here thought Neal's arguments were plausible. (We won't mention names
....) While some of his comments, taken in isolation, seem reasonable, such as the wind
is often light in the fog, you can't use that to prove that sailboats have right of way in
thick fog.

Neal has taken the extra step of asserting that sailboats are obligated to maintain full
speed, in thick fog, even after they hear a fog signal dead ahead. This is the moral
equivalent of giving children matches and gasoline to play with. I know that almost every
reading this understands that Neal is just a buffoon, but there may be a few people out
there that only see one post and are sucked in by it.



"Gerard Weatherby" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:37:04 GMT, otnmbrd wrote:

The only reason I continue to answer your post, is to be sure that some
neophyte who is lurking in the background here, does NOT believe that
what you say is gospel, but is, instead, gibberish garbage.

Surely after the first back and forth this hypothetical neophyte lurker will
have sufficient information to draw the necessary conclusions. Why not just
post links to the rules?

The downloadable version
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/download.htm

and the online version

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/rotr_online.htm

S/V Cat's Meow
http://www.catsmeow.org