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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources |
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Agency 15. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries |
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Chapter 390. Watercraft: Safe and Reasonable Operation of Vessels |
Section 60. Sailing vessels approaching one another
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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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. For the purpose of this section the windward side shall be deemed to be the side opposite that on which the mainsail is carried or, in the case of a square-rigged vessel, the side opposite that on which the largest fore-and-aft sail is carried.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR325-04-3 § 6, eff. July 1, 1973.