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Rule 3a:  "The word "vessel" includes every description of water craft,
including nondisplacement craft and seaplanes, used or capable of being
used as a means of transportation on water."

This seems about as broad as one can write a definition.

My guess is that craft would have to be pretty wimpy (cardboard box, inner
tube) - and therefore pretty incapable of inflicting damage on another
vessel - before the courts would even consider that it might not fit the
description given in Rule 3a.

Lu Abel

At 01:50 PM 1/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Sunday Afternoon
>13 January 2002
>
>I can't take anymore of this 'right-of-way' stuff. We've had sail
>boats being mulled-over and now it's row boats. What is a vessel ?
>
>If I go down to the Texas Gulf Coast and push-off into the Intra-
>coastal Waterway (not likely) on an innertube (sp?) does that
>constitute a 'vessel' and would I therefore be the captain ?
>
>Normally my concerns about the rules-of-the-road begin-and-end
>with bass fishermen and a few power boats when I'm out trying to
>have a quiet sail on a lake on the NE side of Dallas. It sounds
>much more complicated in the larger world.
>
>Regards;
>
>Paul

   

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