Re: [Paddlewise] crossing ship channels safely?

From: Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:36:31 -0400
"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


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