[alberg30] Re: proposed new gummint regs

[Jacques Guerette]

From: "Jacques Guerette" <Jacques.Guerette.jguerett at nt.com>

I think submarines also carry a yellow flasher. I'm not sure though....have
never seen one here on the Ottawa river!

Jacques

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gordon E. White [SMTP:gewhite at crosslink.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 09, 1998 2:02 PM
> To:	alberg30 at onelist.com
> Subject:	[alberg30] Re: proposed new gummint regs
> 
> From: "Gordon E. White" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> 
>    My copy of the Rules of the Road is on the boat, so I can't quote it
> with precision, but high-speed craft such as hovercraft and I some
> inland barges are required to carry flashing yellow lights. I think
> (don't quote me) hovercraft lights must flash at 60 times a minute. This
> is probably the kind of flashing strobe the Maryland pilots had in mind.
> 
>     I can sympathize with them, driving heavy vessels at 18 knots up the
> Bay at night and finding some fool contesting the right of way because
> he is under sail. Actually under the rules, vessels constrained by their
> draft to stay within a channel have the right of way and only an idiot
> would contest it. I learned that on the Delaware River in 1959 when I
> thought I was giving room to a passing freighter at night. Though the
> river was five miles wide the channel was less than 1/4-mile across at
> his depth and he ran a lot closer to me than I liked - I could hear him
> swear.
>     If we all know the rules and behave as seamen such ideas will not be
> brought up.
> 
>                                     - Gordon White
> 
> 
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