Rules Flashcards
What is part A of the colregs?
General, Rule 1-3
What is part B of the colregs?
Steering and sailing rules:
Section 1 - Conduct of vessels in any conditions of visibility rules 4-10
Section 2 - Conduct of vessels in sight of one another rules 11-18
Section 3 - Conduct of vessels in restricted visibility rule 19
What is part C of the colregs?
Lights and Shapes rules 20-31
What is part D of the colregs?
Sound and Light signals rules 32-37
What is part E of the colregs?
Exemptions 38
What is rule 1?
Application
What is rule 2?
Responsibility
What is rule 3?
General definitions
What is rule 4?
Application of part B section 1 “Rules in this Section apply in any condition of visibility.”
What is rule 5?
Look out
“Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision.”
What is rule 6?
Safe speed - Every vessel shall at all times proceed at a safe speed so that she can take proper and effective action
to avoid collision and be stopped within a distance appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions.
What is rule 7?
Risk of collision - Every vessel shall use all available means appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions to determine if risk of collision exists. If there is any doubt such risk shall be deemed to exist.
What is rule 8?
Action to avoid collision
What is rule 9?
Narrow Channels
What is rule 10?
Traffic separation (TSS = Traffic separation scheme)
What is Rule 11?
Application
Rules in this Section apply to vessels in sight of one another.
What is rule 12
Sailing vessels - When two sailing vessels are approaching one another, so as to involve risk of collision, one of
them shall keep out of the way of the other as follows:
(i) when each has the wind on a different side, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other;
(ii) when both have the wind on the same side, the vessel which is to windward shall keep
out of the way of the vessel which is to leeward;
(iii) if a vessel with the wind on the port side sees a vessel to windward and cannot determine with certainty whether the other vessel has the wind on the port or on the starboard side,
she shall keep out of the way of the other.
What is rule 13?
Overtaking - (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Rules of Part B, Sections I and II, any vessel overtaking any other shall keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken.
(b) A vessel shall be deemed to be overtaking when coming up with another vessel from a direction
more than 22.5 degrees abaft her beam, that is, in such a position with reference to the vessel she is overtaking, that at night she would be able to see only the stern light of that vessel but neither
of her sidelights.
What is rule 14?
Head on situation - (a) 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 shall pass on the port side of the other.
What is rule 15?
Crossing situation - When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.
What is rule 16?
Action by give-way vessel
What is rule 17?
Action by stand on vessel
What is rule 18?
Responsibilities between vessels
What is rule 19?
Restricted visibility
Rule 6 (a) list the factors determining a safe speed?
In determining a safe speed the following factors shall be among those taken into account:
(a) By all vessels:
(i) the state of visibility;
(ii) the traffic density including concentrations of fishing vessels or any other vessels;
(iii) the manoeuvrability of the vessel with special reference to stopping distance and turning
ability in the prevailing conditions;
(iv) at night the presence of background light such as from shore lights or from back scatter of her own lights;
(v) the state of wind, sea and current, and the proximity of navigational hazards;
(vi) the draught in relation to the available depth of water.
