walleye 4-29

[rollin-n-trollin]

I am sry miso but the stand on vessel is the boat on the starboard side the give way is the boat on the port side.

[miso_ohio]

I am sry miso but the stand on vessel is the boat on the starboard side the give way is the boat on the port side.

I though that is exactly what I said outside I said it from the standpoint of being in the boat. Boat coming at you on the port you have the right of way, the starboard they have the right away. I guess after rereading it I guess I could of thrown and "a" between approaching and boat to make it a little more clear.

[BuckEye]

I had an incident a few years ago - I was trolling, another boat passed me from the rear on a slightly different heading (He was trolling too) angled just a little toward my boat. He came up right next to me and I had to steer out of his path to keep our lines from tangling. He got all hot and was yelling and swearing. He finally threw a downrigger ball at me! Of course, there was no way he could throw it far enough, but it was still funny.

[wnyguy]

My understanding is that in any kind of crossing situation, the boat on the right (starboard) has the right of way and is the stand on vessel. The stand on vessel is even somewhat obligated to maintain course. The boat on the left (port) side should alter course and pass behind the stand on vessel, hopefully far enough back to avoid cutting lines...If the stand on vessel has doubt about the give way vessel then the stand on vessel can bast those 5 quick WTF are you doing horn blasts.

In an overtake situation, the faster boat must alter course and go around the slower vessel. In a head on situation, both vessels turn right.

All of this of course gets thrown out the window if a collision situation can occur then you do whatever you need to not sink each other's boats...and especially you don't want to lose any full beers onto the bottom of lake erie.

Myself, I just try and avoid other boats as early as I can see someone else out there and we will eventually cross. I'm still kind of new at this.

[skipper9]

My understanding is that in any kind of crossing situation, the boat on the right (starboard) has the right of way and is the stand on vessel. The stand on vessel is even somewhat obligated to maintain course. The boat on the left (port) side should alter course and pass behind the stand on vessel, hopefully far enough back to avoid cutting lines...If the stand on vessel has doubt about the give way vessel then the stand on vessel can bast those 5 quick WTF are you doing horn blasts.

In an overtake situation, the faster boat must alter course and go around the slower vessel. In a head on situation, both vessels turn right.

All of this of course gets thrown out the window if a collision situation can occur then you do whatever you need to not sink each other's boats...and especially you don't want to lose any full beers onto the bottom of lake erie.

Myself, I just try and avoid other boats as early as I can see someone else out there and we will eventually cross. I'm still kind of new at this.

This is all correct except. The speed of a boat does not matter when you are overtaken. The boat that is being overtaken has the right of way. The boat that is passing the other boat has to give way. 0

[BILLY JOE]

not sure how we got on this subject from penalty box first post but if your a boater and only choose one rule to learn who has the right of way would be a good one you get crowded one way or the other when trolling sometimes you just have to adjust try trolling for salmon on lake michigan with 350 of line out thats when it gets real crazy