"Donald R. Reid" wrote: > First, 'right away' does not come into play ... considering > everything, the 'big guy', even if somehow he was to see the > little guy could never stop in time, nor change his course > to avoid an accident. I believe the term we use for that around here is "The rule of gross tonnage." He who has the tonnage rules. Us, in our 1/10 ton vessels, must remember that we are mice in the elephants playground. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 27 2000 - 10:37:17 PDT
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