[Moonzy1]

Who asked you to read it?

Precise you say?


Rule 9 a.A vessel proceeding along the course of a narrow channel or fairway shall keep as near to the outer limit of the channel or fairway which lies on her starboard side as is safe and practicable. -- Safe and practicable is a relative term and will vary from boater to boater and boat to boat...current will also be a variable factor as to what is "safe and practicable"

Rule 9 b. A vessel of less than 20 meters in length or a sailing vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel which can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway. -- Does your "precise" rule for safely navigate mean that if the channel is 20' wide and the stand on vessel has a beam of 13', another vessel of beam 7' or less can safely pass through at the same time?

These rules are not precise as you say. They are guidelines which require common sense to be effective...and also somewhat open to an uncertain level interpretation. ----items of precision do not. They usually can be measured and quantified.

Theres a well known profession based on this fact.....its called The Practice of Law.

My implication was that the bridge operator there calls the right of way w the tide...nothing really about the conditions.Why do you attempt to minimize my reference to the Glimmer Glass anyway?
Are they both not "narrow" are they both not "drawbridges? So far identical comparisons except for the fact that the currents are way worse at the train bridge...my point exactly.

What else you got? I can do this all day.