New to boating...shocked safety course not mandatory!

VarneyPoint · 08-08-2005, 02:20 PM

Just want to ask a simple question to try to get a sampling of answers from my fellow boaters. What infraction bothers you more, violating the 150' rule or violating the right of way (right of passage) rule? For me personally, people who don't know or care not to follow the right of way rule burn me the most. The reason being is that it is cut and dry. There is zero ambiguity to this rule. One boat has the right of way, the other does not. It makes me so mad when another boat who does not have the right of way does not yield and then flips me off when I don't yield b/c I have the right of way. Just wondering what others think. Thoughts?

08-08-2005, 02:20 PM	#18
VarneyPoint Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: MA Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	What bothers you more? Just want to ask a simple question to try to get a sampling of answers from my fellow boaters. What infraction bothers you more, violating the 150' rule or violating the right of way (right of passage) rule? For me personally, people who don't know or care not to follow the right of way rule burn me the most. The reason being is that it is cut and dry. There is zero ambiguity to this rule. One boat has the right of way, the other does not. It makes me so mad when another boat who does not have the right of way does not yield and then flips me off when I don't yield b/c I have the right of way. Just wondering what others think. Thoughts?