PART C: Lights & Shapes
Snapshot
Rules 20 to 31
This part defines the lights and shapes each type of vessel must display.
Lights serve three distinct purposes;
– Presence – awareness of a vessel,
– Heading – which way the vessel is travelling,
– Status – any special status the vessel has.
Shapes are the daytime equivalent of status lights. Black, three-dimensional geometric shapes, usually hoisted on a mast.
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Rule 25: Sailing vessels underway and vessels under oars
Day Shape A sailing yacht with an engine can either be a power-driven vessel (using engines to propel itself) or a sailing vessel. In many situations, it is obvious which definition it falls into. To the onlooker, the yacht is either moving without sails, which means it must be a power-driven vessel, or moving with…
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