The rules of the road can help you avoid an unplanned get-together with another vessel.
“I will never forget the first time I hit another boat. I was 19 years old and sailing a Beetle Cat through the inner mooring field of Newport Harbor, trying to impress a girl who had come to visit. I was a first-year apprentice at the IYRS School of Technology & Trades. It was a beautiful warm June afternoon with blue skies and a 12- to 15-knot sea breeze filling in. I was sailing close-hauled but getting set unusually hard…”
Click to read “Collision Avoidance” from Soundings, written by Will Sofrin.