View Single Post
Old 07-11-2017, 01:12 PM   #34
thinkxingu
Senior Member
 
thinkxingu's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 5,939
Thanks: 1,152
Thanked 1,959 Times in 1,210 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by HomeWood View Post
I have tried to comply with the 150' rule when passing other boats going the opposite direction. I was the only idiot slowing down and it started to seem completely pointless. For example this was on Winnipesaukee in Moultonboro between M-Bay and Lees Mills. It can get tight on a busy day and here I am trying to comply while everybody is probably laughing at me. Unless it was going to be really close I stopped bothering.
That's a real tough area to keep 150' from both the shore and other boats and, frankly, no way are people gonna do headway speed for that long a distance on a busy day.

Sent from my XT1528 using Tapatalk
thinkxingu is online now   Reply With Quote