Hi, Paul:
You raise a very good point. Sometimes it's not a lack of ears. It's a lack of a mouth.
With a receiver on board your boat, you should have seen that tug, IF he was transmitting. Our experience, mostly on the Upper Bay, is that tugs are the most frequent sinners, although the regs under which they operate require them.
As you said, it's a tool, but it doesn't relieve one of the responsibility for a proper lookout.
Bill
You raise a very good point. Sometimes it's not a lack of ears. It's a lack of a mouth.
With a receiver on board your boat, you should have seen that tug, IF he was transmitting. Our experience, mostly on the Upper Bay, is that tugs are the most frequent sinners, although the regs under which they operate require them.
As you said, it's a tool, but it doesn't relieve one of the responsibility for a proper lookout.
Bill
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