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A tough question for Jeff and Shen44
EG.....look before you leap
Simple Simon wrote: I don't see any replies yet . . . He he! I've got 'em on the run. I can see them now flipping thru the pages of the Rules, scratching their heads and muttering, "What's he up to? We gotta get this one right. He's already made us look bad on numerous occasions. We can't let him continue to make us look stupid. Etc. etc. Go ahead, gentlemen. Shake in your boots like Janet Reno on speed. I don't blame you one bit. S.Simon "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Now, I'm going to expand upon my scenario of an auxiliary sailboat with sails up but not making way while underway because the wind is calm. It is now nighttime and . . . The captain decides to take down his sails so they won't be slating back and forth in the left- over swell. His motor is off. He is still underway and not making way but what is he now? Is he a motor vessel with his engine off or is he a sailboat with his sails down? What do you think? My answer would be that he is a sailboat and can legally run a tricolor light at the masthead. My reason is because he has sails even though they are furled. What say you two? Now, let's do another scene. An auxiliary sailboat motors, like Bobsprit does, out into Long Island sound with the cover on the mainsail and the wind-up jib rolled up tightly. Once well away from the dock the motor is turned off. What is the status of this boat that is underway but not making way? I say it is a motor boat with motor turned off because it used a motor to get to it's present location. This vessel must then use the lower running lights and the steaming light. The use of only the masthead tricolor is incorrect because it is not sailing, did not sail to its position and does not have its sails ready to be put to work. What say you two? Answer thoughtfully because if you answer with a motor boat mentality or otherwise incorrectly I have set a trap out of which you both will find it very difficult to escape (as is the usual case when you two treat with me). S.Simon |
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