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Each week, we offer you a question about the boat license. To validate your knowledge or to discover unexplored areas. This week, we are tackling a question on the rules of the road.
Meeting between two motor boats
Today we pass a sailboat. But in the absence of any established sails, so we know it is motoring and therefore consider it a motor vessel. If it was both sailing and motoring, with sails set, it would have to wear a black triangle upside down in its mast. In both cases, it loses the privilege of sailing under sail. Our crossing therefore falls into the category of a crossing between two motor vessels.
I go behind him
The text that prevents collisions at sea, in its rule 15, indicates that when two motorboats are on crossing courses, and there is a risk of collision, it is the vessel that sees the other on its starboard side that must move out of the way of the latter.
In our case, it's up to me to go behind the sailboat.
This explanation is valid if both motorboats are masters of their maneuver. Indeed, in order of privilege, we find, from the most privileged to the least privileged :
- A ship that is not in control of its maneuvering
- A vessel with limited maneuvering capacity
- A ship fishing
- A sailboat
- A motor vessel
