That is true of most any thread. I read a lot of our resident "sea
lawyers." But depending on them for legal advice is akin to depending
on RB for sail trim advice.

"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
...
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
...
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