The new rules of the road at sea; being the regulations for preventing collisions at sea, 1897. With explanatory notes and observations on the law relating thereto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...wind as she can possibly be sailed. She may be as much as a point off the wind and yet will be close-hauled within the meaning of that phrase as used in this Article. It is impossible to say where the line can be drawn between running free and wind aft. A vessel sailing with the wind 4 points from right aft has been held to be a vessel with the wind aft.2 It seems, however, that a vessel with the wind aft, may at the same time be a vessel running free. For example, A vessel A running before a N.E. wind, steering S.W. Sly. with her boom to starboard has on her port side a vessel B steering S.W. Wly., with her boom to port. Both are vessels running free and with the wind aft and are on converging courses. If they are vessels with the wind aft and within sub-section (e), then by these Rules eachhas to get outof the way of the other. Itis submitted that they are not within sub-section (e),but are vessels running free with the wind on different sides, in which case the vessel A steering S.W. Sly. must give way as she has the wind on her port side. No great difficulty will be experienced in the daytime in determining whether a vessel is close-hauled or running free. This is not so easy at night. STEERING AND SAILING BULES. ART. 17 In the Theodore H. Band, a vessel close-hauled on the port tack saw the red light of a sailing vessel on her starboard bow. Thinking it was a light of a vessel close-hauled on the starboard tack, she bore up and came into collision, for the other vessel was in fact running free.1 A vessel close-hauled on the starboard tack is a vessel directed by Article 21 to keep her course and speed. She may luff up as close to the wind as she can without losing her speed; but she must not let her sails shake, as that has been held to be not keeping ...