Every week, we present you with a question about your boating license. To help you validate your knowledge, or to discover new and unexplored areas. This week, we tackle a question on ship's lights.
Red = port
At night, the green and red colors are used to mark the sides of a boat. The red light covers 112.5° on the port bow. The green light covers 112.5° on the starboard bow. When you see this red light, it means you're in this port bow quarter. We've indicated this by the red zone on the aerial view of this boat in the drawing.
The white light above means it's a motorboat, or a sailboat that sails under power. Seeing only one white light means it's less than 50 m long, otherwise it should have a second white light on the bow, lower than the first.
To answer the question, seeing the port side of the boat means it's heading left. All that remains now is to estimate its speed by keeping a regular eye on it, to be sure of avoiding a collision course.
