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The example you give brings in another set of rules. Very large commercial vessels are constrained by size, draft, and navigation. The large vessel couldn't possible navigate to avoid a collision. They can't in most cases because it would take them too long to change course or stop. Therefore, in your picture, the large vessel is the stand-on vessel and the small vessel is an simply an idiot.
Any radio contact? If not, I wonder if he even knew the barge was there. Looks like a pilothouse boat. Lots of folks out there driving from the PH with no clue what's behind them due to boat/window design. I love a flybridge.View attachment 77054Although this didn’t happen to me, I have had such close encounters. Overtaking in a narrow channel, When at last minute the little guy goes from the port side across my bow to the stbd side. Note the bridge abutment. This was Sunday the 3rd. Poughkeepsie mid Hudson bridge.
If you think this is OK, Zoom in to really see what the issue is.
This is where this happened. Plenty of water EVERYWHERE for a small vessel to go. View attachment 77055
Sam. If you are on here. Please explain. If only so I can understand what the thinking is to make sure I can avoid an incident like this in the future.
Who is Sam?
The tug pushing the barge went full astern.
The reason I posted this event is not to cry over the rules, or place blame. It is to try to understand how someone acts, doesn’t care about their surroundings and/or what can happen due to inattention and careless mistakes. I’m sure others would like to hear what was happening from the other perspective. Was there some ‘reason’. Was there some rationale for cutting across the channel?
From my 38 years experience operating tugs and tows all along the East and Gulf coasts I have seen this same ‘Nautical Squirrel’ maneuver. I have been yelled at: ‘Didn’t you see me? I’m a sailing vessel. I’m this. I’m that’. But the upshot is.... my barge is only approximately 60 to 80’ wide. How can anyone NOT stay out of danger by NOT being within that frontal area? It appears some cannot ascertain risk of collision or whether they are even IN a dangerous situation. Or how to get OUT of a dangerous situation. It’s not just ‘a Lookout’. Or who’s right and who’s wrong.
It’s about simply staying alive. It doesn’t get much more simple than that.
Shrew already made this point earlier but it’s importance is often missed. When two boats collide it’s rarley just a case of right away. Both boats are always obligated to avoid the collision. The stand on vessel must still prove that it made Every reasonable effort to avoid the collision or it will be assigned a portion of the blame.
We have a very interesting case here in the Puget Sound between a State Ferry that was the give way vessel and had room to maneuver vs a trawler that was the stand on vessel on a long established course but operator was not at the helm. The interesting part will be how much blame is assigned to each boat.
the nerve of people...parking a 2 yr old SUV in a hanicapped spot.....
where am I to park my brand new Rolls?![]()