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Cap'n Crunch
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Question:
How do you know that you're on a collision course with another boat?

If you have a good answer, just an opinion, or even a silly answer to this question, feel free to also post a reply.

Choices:
A. My body gets that sudden urge to hug the windshield
B. That was nice of him to wave. I wonder how the poor guy lost all those fingers.
C. Something about beware of a relative bearing a gift
D. Use the 5 second rule and estimate position.

 
 
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Cap'n Crunch
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It seems there is some interest in the USPS boating course; so I thought I might try some questions for the fun of it.

Later I will post an answer...sometimes even the correct one. Smiler

I am by no means an expert so feel free to reply with your own answer...even if you just feel like joking around.
 
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If you boat at Okoboji, look under your boat. If there is a boat there you may have been on a collision course.

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Cap'n Crunch
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While the "5 second rule" sounds pretty good, it's actually what the kids use when they drop a piece of candy on the ground. Smiler

The correct answer is "C" with the key phrase of "relative bearing".

Relative bearing being the position of the other boat in relation to your boat.

"Sight" the other boat over a point on your boat such as a bow rail support, part of the windshield, horn, etc. After a short period of time, note the other boat's relative position again.

If it is ahead of the point you orginally used as your sight, the other boat will pass ahead of you. If it is behind this point, the other boat will pass behind you.

But, if it still continues to remain over the same point on your boat, then the relative bearing has not changed and you both are on a collision course....

I wonder who has the "right of way"...???
 
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