Shrimp Boat vs Cruise Ship

Pretty clear cut. Rule 9 narrow channel.. a vessel engaged in fishing shall not impede the passage of a vessel which can only navigate in the channel.

If you look carefully at the bridge and the two buoys in the distance, you can see the cattle ship is slightly altering course to port and appear to be close to the edge of the channel

Some of comments on social media have been really funny to read incl people saying the cruise ship is CBD or RAM
 
I could be mistaken, but it appears to me that the trawler was not fishing, I don't see any lines coming off the outriggers.
 
Hard to tell. He s got stuff hanging up top but can’t really see if it s a day shape for fishing.

He appears to be under 20 meter so rule 9 still applies.
 
I would rely on the "first law of gross tonnage".
 
PascalG said:
Can you point to where it is actually described in the colregs?
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I've seen it referenced right here, so it must be a thing, right?

Do you take paypal? I'll send you $5 to buy a sense of humor.
 
That fishing boat was not engaged in fishing. It was moving way to fast to be dragging nets anyway. Was passage arranged by the overtaking vessel? Were 5 toots blasted? I had sound off so I cannot say. But it sure looks like the fishing boat made a hard turn to stbd when it realized what was going on. I don't believe for a second that the cruise ship had to maintain that much speed for steerage.
Me?
Both at fault. Neither took all available means to avoid an accident.
 
speedo said:
I've seen it referenced right here, so it must be a thing, right?

Do you take paypal? I'll send you $5 to buy a sense of humor.
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At my age it would take a lot more than $5 to buy me some!!

The law of tonnage is one of these things that keeps being mentioned but really doesn’t exist. But repeat a lie too many times and it becomes real. Dangerous slope

I ll give you a real world example of why sticking to the rules is critical. About a year ago I was about to cross the port of Miami channel at night when I saw one of the Fisher Island ferries approach down the channel on my port side. I figured I wasnt in a rush and I d slow down to let him cross in front of me. There was a lot of traffic on 16 so I didn’t call the ferry. As I started slowing down, the ferry assuming I was going to maintain course and speed started altering course to pass behind me except that now he was aiming straight to me. No big deal, I accelerated back but it shows that you have to stick to the rules unless otherwise communicated.
 
boatbum said:
That fishing boat was not engaged in fishing. It was moving way to fast to be dragging nets anyway. Was passage arranged by the overtaking vessel? Were 5 toots blasted? I had sound off so I cannot say. But it sure looks like the fishing boat made a hard turn to stbd when it realized what was going on. I don't believe for a second that the cruise ship had to maintain that much speed for steerage.
Me?
Both at fault. Neither took all available means to avoid an accident.
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It seems to me the cattle ship was turning to port to the very edge of the channel. There wasn’t much he could do to avoid collision.

The fishing boat only turned to stbd after after his outrigger hit the ship. Actually he may have simply be knocked of course after his outrigger hit.
 
Cruise ship could have backed off. They were passing. I believe that puts some onus on them to ensure safe passage and clarification of responses to arrangement of passage. They could have backed off long before it became an issue. A couple of knots here or there is not a big deal given how fast they were moving. Again, both at fault. That's my story and I am sticking to it.
 
Agree with Dan, shrimp boat going way to fast for dragging. Don't know about their location but around here there could have been a language problem with so many Vietnamese shrimpers. Some of whom ignore most communications with non-Viet vessels. Regardless, both the goofballs driving those boats didn't handle the situation well.
 
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