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Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 27-03-2019, 02:27
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Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I don't really see where we disagree on anything.


Just like in all collision avoidance situations, you just do the best and most seamanlike thing you can, which sometimes even requires deviating...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 14:00
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I think we are in complete agreement.


But I think jurisidiction this or that, insurance company, whatever -- I don't think you need to even think about the law. I think the main thing is to...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 13:01
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Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

So maybe move?
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 10:45
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Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I agree with you, however -- I do reserve the right to not comply with unreasonable requests. Very rarely but sometimes I will anchor over someone's objections, but really only if there is just no...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 09:22
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I didn't say "usually 50:50". That would have been the case under the old equal division of liability rule, but that's been gone since the 1910 Brussels Collision Convention which abolished the...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 08:37
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Ha, ha. Well, the memory is not what it used to be, but it was honed at one time by getting through law school and practicing for a number of years and there might be a bit of it left.


As I...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 06:34
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I am on the boat with no access to a law library, so can't take up your challenge (Google is a very poor law library), but you are citing through secondary sources, and only one of your cites says...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 03:25
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I agree very much with all of the above, but just note, that the law doesn't care anything about comfort, convenience, or "anchoring mode". It cares about safety, and you are required to ditch all...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 26-03-2019, 01:32
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Yes, absolutely. This could cut both ways. Warning the latecomer might be evidence of good seamanship or might be evidence of poor seamanship if there was some way for you to move yourself.


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Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 15:21
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

That's an interesting and instructive scenario, well illustrating how hard some of these decisions can be, but you fall out of principles of maritime law when you start talking about "accepted all...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 12:47
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

That's actually a wise comment.


You can be more scared for one of two reasons -- either you understand less than the other boat, so you are unreasonably scared, or you understand more, so the...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 12:36
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Well, it's always good to have a good lawyer, but rarely is a good lawyer able to get you off the hook, if the fundamental legal basis for your being on the hook, exists. And the statement below by...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 10:27
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Your understanding is correct. And that is generally how the collision regulations work, not just in regard to anchoring.



At sea is different from on land:


* Another vessel's...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 10:17
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Indeed! :thumb:






A very true and very important thing to understand :thumb:
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 25-03-2019, 10:09
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Indeed! Radar is fantastic for these situations. This is one place where the CW type (non-pulse) radars excel, because they have no main bang, and have really good performance at close ranges. I...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 21-03-2019, 07:17
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

I understand and agree.


But my experience is that two skippers often have very different judgement about what is a safe distance for anchoring, and that persuading another skipper to accept your...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 21-03-2019, 01:25
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

But maybe not so difficult if you take the attitude that you are always responsible for the safety of your own boat, not some other sailor, whether he came earlier, later, or whatever.


If you...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 11-03-2019, 00:13
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

As a matter of fact, I have anchored in La Paz Bay!


But I was in a friend's Swan 90, and we were anchored a bit further out than the crowd, so not much affected. There are surely some places...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 10-03-2019, 04:51
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

God, I love bilge keel boats [emoji76]
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 10-03-2019, 04:07
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Boat of roughly similar type move roughly in unison. It would be very rare indeed that you would have one boat at the end of her scope lying due E of her anchor, say, and another boat at the end of...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 10-03-2019, 03:55
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

For every story about some clueless soul doing something clueless (or at least, for every 10 stories :) ), there's a story about someone doing something particularly skillful, insightful, seamanlike,...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 09-03-2019, 11:14
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Not this:


187562


Although they're also handy to have on board.
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 09-03-2019, 11:01
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

We had a guy on here who anchors by throwing the anchor out and going below to open a beer, and insisted loudly and long that this is excellent technique, because he has decades of experiences...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 09-03-2019, 09:07
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

Well, if he's not on board, that's actually the best situation of all :) You just put out fenders and push him out of the way as you get up to your anchor. It's really not a big deal.


50%...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 09-03-2019, 02:27
Replies: 276
Views: 44,333
Posted By Dockhead
Re: When neighboring boat disagrees

This is a misunderstanding.



The rule is that whoever comes second is generally responsible if there is contact later, and that is a very different proposition from the first person "making the...
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