Each week, Bateaux.com offers you a question about the boat license. To validate your skills or even to discover unexplored areas. This week, we tackle a question about ship's lights.
What do these lights mean?
As you can see, it is a ship that we have in front of us. Its green light indicates that it is moving forward (with headway) and that we can see its starboard side. The green light above the white indicates that it is a trawler. As we do not see any other white light, it is a trawler of less than 50 m. The white light above the red light indicates that he is turning his trawl.
To understand the image, here is how the lights are arranged on the ship. Note that during the day, the lights are off and that a vessel in fishing must present a mark formed by 2 superimposed cones joined by the point.
To understand the different angles of the lights, here is a vertical and aerial view of the same boat.
