sbman
Guru
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2017
- Messages
- 828
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Second Chance
- Vessel Make
- 42' Uniflite Double Cabin
Why waste time thinking about it? People are stupid. **** happens. Sailors are not all experienced old salts doing everything perfect and blather about how great they are all the time regardless of the fact that you asked them what time it was…
I wanted to know who and what rule/law is in place in situations like this. My wording and explanation of what happened took center stage though instead of the point of the post.
I'm completely in psneeld's corner on this one. OP, please, your post has quite a few assumptions/maybes and while you saw what you saw, in many if not most investigations that is not the full story. You use 300 words in "Pinball - Mooring field style", a thinly veiled sailboats/boaters suck thread, to surround the question of "What's the right thing to do when you see a boat hit another boat?".
What do you do when you witness something happen to another boat, a vehicle, someone's yard? Do you have some integrity, do you follow the Golden Rule, or are you in the "I don't want to get involved" camp? Don't really need local law or mooring field, yacht club, customs to dictate your actions. Pretty simple to me.
I'm a sailor at heart who has gone to the dark side....
Yes it's pretty simple. I do have an opinion of the situation that happened, just like posters form an opinion of my intent from the posting.
The point of the thread and the question at hand was, what should a bystander do (if anything). Secondarily but perhaps more importantly what rules even apply?
Everybody makes mistakes, and we find ourselves in bad situations. I like to know what the domain is that I'm navigating from as many aspects as possible. Sometimes things that 'make sense' and what seems simple isn't as obvious or simple as it seems, especially in the heat of a moment in which things are going wrong.
I've done enough research now to know what rules apply, where they are found and who generally enforces them and under what circumstances.