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Section B
General Limitations |
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| 14 Avoiding Contact If reasonably possible, a boat shall (a) avoid contact with another boat, (b) not cause contact between boats, and (c) not cause contact between a boat and an object that should be avoided. |
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| 15 Acquiring Right of
Way When a boat acquires right of way, she shall initially give the other boat room to keep clear, unless she acquires right of way because of the other boat's actions. |
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| 16 Changing
Course 16.1 When a right-of-way boat changes course, she shall give the other boat room to keep clear. 16.2 In addition, on a beat to windward when a port-tack boat is keeping clear by sailing to pass to leeward of a starboard-tack boat, the starboard-tack boat shall not bear away if as a result the port-tack boat must change course immediately to continue keeping clear. |
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| 17 On the Same Tack;
Proper Course If a boat clear astern becomes overlapped within two of her hull lengths to leeward of a boat on the same tack, she shall not sail above her proper course while they remain on the same tack and overlapped within that distance, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other boat. |
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