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Re: A few questions for the pros
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Jun 14, 16:00 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Jun 14, 16:00 -0400
Bill- In the US ColRegs, Rule 17 defines duties of the "Stand-On" vessel. I assume your friend was using "stand-to" in the same sense. There are legal duties placed on each vessel in a "collision" situation, the stand-on vessel is generally required to maintain her course and speed so that the other vessel (give-way vessel) can be certain they won't both "move out of the way" and wind up moving *into* each other's way again. I have a PDF verison that's just over 1MB in size, if you'd like I can email that to you.
