Boat Cleaning Products Tip When Sailing Around Multiple Boats
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Raritan Engineering Company specializing in Boat Cleaning Products would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding safety when sailing around multiple boats.
When you meet up with another boat in open water, well away from any marks or other boats, applying the rules is usually quite straightforward; the rules are written for pairs of boats. So when an incident involves two boats, you have to consider only the rules that apply for those two boats. But when there are three boats close to one another, things get more complex because you must consider the rules that apply for each pair of boats. For a three-boat incident, there are three pairs of boats; for a four-boat incident, there are six pairs.
Let’s consider what, at first glance, seems to be a very simple three-boat incident. The diagram shows Luke, Molly and Willie on starboard tack on a downwind leg. The boats ar...