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RULE 15 - CROSSING SITUATIONS
Rule 14
(a) Unless otherwise agreed [Inld] When two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses so as to involve risk of collision each shall alter her course to starboard so that each ...

 


crossing situation
the legal term for the meeting of two vessels, which is not head-on, and in which one boat is within the sector defined by the bow and a point 22.5° abaft the beam of the other boat ...

Crossing Situation
When two vessels approach each other and their paths are crossing. The boat with the other boat on its starboard side is the give way vessel and must yield.
Crosstrees ...

crossing situation The meeting of two vessels, which is not head-on, but having 22.5 degrees aft the beam.
cunningham Invented by Briggs Cunningham, it is the line controlling tension along a sail's luff.

Privileged Vessel - Vessel having the right of way in a crossing situation
Prop Walk - Sideward force created by a spinning propeller Right hand prop (clockwise) ...

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