Hi,



Okay, flame suit on....



you wrote

"...i wonder how many powerboaters can say that they have been cut off or run into by a sailboat when the sailboat was a fault? "



Darn few, I'd guess...



I'm sitting here trying to think of cirucmstances *that occur often enough to merit discussion* in which a powerboater and a sailboat *under sail* can interact negatively with the fault being that of the sailboat.



Vessel in tow? Vessal at anchor? Disabled, drifting wrecked powercraft? Okay, but all of those, while being technically "rules of the road" issues, are so blamed obvious that for a sailboat to hit one of them requires more than simple ignorance of the rules.... these incidents rise to the level of agravated indifference to reality, posibly drug induced. Such behavior rises above the whole power/sail issue entirely.



Other than that, the only way I know of to be at fault when you cut off or run into a power boat with your sailboat under sail is to run up his transom, which I suppose is possible in a cat